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Summer Homes and Rambles 



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Preface 3 

A SUMMER HOLIDAY : 

I. The Invalid Corps 5 

II. No Saratoga in Mine 8 

III. No Adirondacks in .His „ 15 

IV. Some Little Diversions ig 

V. Other People in Clover 22 

VI. The Closing Scene 32 

VII. The Wilds of Sullivan ." 33 

VIII. Some Results 36 

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELERS: 

Time Limit of Excursion Tickets 37 

Where to Get Information 37 

THE DIRECTORY : 

Along the Eastern Division. — Rutherford to Port Jervis. ...._.' 38 

Lower Delaiuare Valley. — Milford and Dingmans 49 

Sullivan and Ulster Mountains. — Monticello, White Lake, Ellen ville, 

Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska 50 

Delazuare Highlands. — Shohola to Hancock 53 

Hudson Highlands. — Central Valley to Newburgh 58 

Lackawaxen Valley. — Lackawaxen to Honesdale 61 

Newburgh Branch. — Washingtonville and Salisbury 63 

In the Catskills. — Shokan, Big Indian , . 64 



Copyright, 1882. By John N. Abbott. 



BY WAY OF PREFACE. 



EXPLANATORY, 



The following recollections of a season passed among the varied 
attractions of the famous regions along the Erie "Railway form a narra- 
tive of actual experiences, which is related with only such flights of fancy 
as might be needed to enliven it. Its characters are drawn from life, 
and in all essentials it is a narrative that simply records the remin- 
iscences of hundreds of others who have spent the summer among the 
scenes it describes, with results as happy as those which attended the 
sojourn of the parties to our sketch. 



ADVISORY. 

To those who prefer for the summer season the quiet, pastoral influ- 
ence of farm-resorts, the country tributary to and traversed by the Erie 
Railway offers especial attractions. The country homes of Orange 
County are unsurpassed anywhere in the Union. The very name of an 
Orange County farm is synonymous with health, comfort and all the 
good things of life. It suggests fragrant fields, cool springs feeding 
meadow brooks, "sweet-breathed kine," well laden orchards, plethoric 
cellars, replete larders, and products of the dairy fresh, pure and plenty. 
Scores of these rural homesteads annually open their doors to city folk, as 
do their neighbors of the Ramapo, Paramus and Passaic valleys. Going 
farther from the city, we find the farmers of the Delaware Valley, and 
the interior of Sullivan County, ready to welcome the summer guests to 
their hospitable and cheerful homes. There is scarcely a town, village 
or hamlet between Ridgewood and Callicoon which does not offer many 
and most desirable summer homes of this class. 



The Erie Railway is also especially favored in attractive retreats 
nearer by the city, where the guest may be surrounded by all rural com- 
forts and delights, and still be as near his business in the city, in pcint 

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of time, as though he were constantly within the hearing of its noise and 
bustle. The points between Rutherford and Suffern are all properly re- 
sorts of this class. 



The very complete directory in this book will give seekers after sum- 
mer sojourning places all information they require as to the location 
and surroundings of every resort on and adjacent to the Erie Railway; 
names of the hotels and- boarding-houses, their capacity, terms, and 
special features ; distance, rates of fare, and train facilities. This direc- 
tory has been compiled with great care, and is designed to save much 
tiresome correspondence and tedious delay preparatory to settling for 
the summer. 



S: 0tiinii\ei' Solidky. 



THE INVALID CORPS. 

T the club we called them the Invalid 
Corps. They were Brush, the artist; 
gfJa. Fisher and Gunn, and Brush's eccen- 
(g-T^Jtv trie friend,' Mi". 'Thorndike Gull. 
Brush is one of the best fellows 
in the world. His one great fault 
is the asthma, but that fault, I am 
glad to say, he has done much 
>^ to correct. I am not up very 
high in art matters, but I never 
'^ knew abetter artist than Brush. 
When I come to think of it, 
though, that may not be a 
very great compliment for 
him, after all, for I be- 
i, lieve he is the only ar- 
'% -^ J'-j- _^ tist I ever knew. 




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Anyhow, I al- 
ways entertained 
the highest pos- 
sible opinion of 

Brush's ability as an artist. But, somehow, they appeared to disagree with 
me at what Brush called " the Academy,'' for although he had for years 
regularly sent his most charming pictures to be shown at the exhibitions 
for the benefit of the public and struggling young art students, they had 
been just as regularly consigned to oblivion by something he alluded to 



as a " hanging committee.'' This unaccountable treatment of my friend 

soured his disposition towards hanging committees, and I think greatly 

aggravated that unfortunate 

fault of his aforementioned. 
Mr. Thorndike Gull, Brush's 

eccentric friend, was a guile- 
less, good-hearted Englishman, 

with " swell" proclivities. He 

was economical in ideas, but 

rather prodigal in cockneyisms. - 

His family v/as good, and he 

meant well ; but he had a great 

deal to learn. He was of some 

service to Brush when the latter - 

was abroad, and when I met 

Gull a year ago. Brush was 

manifesting his appreciation by showing him around while he was 

receiving his first impressions of America. Gull had been in this coun- 
try a year when I first met him, and had fallen a 
victim in some way to that very disagreeable 
but ultra fashionable ailment, the hay fever. The 
permeating innocence of his nature was revealed 
to me five minutes after we met, for by that time 
he had informed me, with several parenthetical 
sneezes, that he was — aw — engiged to be married, 
you know, to a chawming gyirl, but the — aw — 
beastly hy fever you 'av in this 
L ^'^\^iyv,,\~^'^^=^^^ ~ kentry, you know, had — aw 
^,n,.yC^^~^'^.^~i^f^^\\<P---,., .^ — made a blooming idiot of 

him, and unless he could — aw 




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— run it down he couldn't — aw — think of marrying, you know, and 
would — aw — go back to England a ghastly wreck, you know, b-y-y Jove I 

I don't know how long I have known Rob. Fisher, 
but we have been old cronies for years. He and 
his cousin Sam. Gunn are about the most enthusias- 
tic amateur sportsmen in New York, and having 
plenty of money they enjoy themselves from Maine 
to Texas. Two years ago they came home from an 
excursion in the South, each nursing a stubborn 
case of malaria. It was with them yet last May, 
and one day I found them at the club discussing the 
propriety of seel<ing some mountain region for the summer and testing 
its sanitary effect on their poisoned systems. Brush and Gull dropped in 




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at the time — Brush puffing and wheezing- Hke a tug-boat ; Gull watery 
at the eyes, and handkerchief in hand in momentary but woful anticipa- 
tion of a sneeze. Gull's ailment seemed so fond of his susceptible com- 
position that it staid by him winter and summer. 

" I've made up my mind," said Brush, " to try a piece of the country 
up in the Ramapo and Highland neighborhood this summer, and 
this time settles it. If I spend a week up there, and find my- 
self still working like a yoke of steers to pull in my breath at the rate 
of one every five minutes, back I come to New York, and when you look 
over the papers and read the account of a man being found dead with 
unmistakable evidence that he was poisoned, shot and hanged, all you've 
got to do is to drop in at the coroner's office, have them find a verdict of 
'asthma, superinduced by a hanging committee,' and take me home." 

The grim facetiousness of Brush agitated 
his friend Gull to such an extent that he shot Ji!^^^^- ilj ^ ^, ^ /•>, 

off a volley of sneezes, and his eyes actually ^J^ Ulil/- 

showered. 

" I hear that the air in that locality stands 
ready at a moment's notice to try conclusions 
with any case like mine," continued Brush, 
"and that it generally comes out ahead. 
Besides, I know there must be some fine bits 
of scenery up there, and I want to catch 
some of them. If things go right, I'll get a subject before I come back 
that will knock the. stubborn breath out of any hanging committee, and 
make it feel that it might be more usefully engaged if it should go out 
and hang itself instead of pictures." 

"Aw — I say Brush, old boy," said Gull, who seemed to have worked 
up an idea. " Aw — if the air is good for the awsthma where you're- 
aw-going, why won't it be good for this beastly hy fever, you know ? " 
And Gull put his eye-glass in his eye only to have it popped out imme- 
diately by a sneeze. 

"If it helps me," replied Brush, "it will knock your hay fever so high 
that you'll never be able to find it again, even if you cruise after it in a 
balloon." 

" Aw — then we'll go together," said Gull. " It cawn't make it — aw — 
any worse, you know. It cawn't, b-y-y Jove ! " 

Fisher was strongly in favor of the upper Delaware valley and high, 
lands from what he had heard of them, and Gunn was equally as con- 
fident that his deliverance was to come from the interior of Sullivan 
county. For once in their lives they pulled apart, and each concluded 
to try the locality that seemed to him the most acceptable. So by 
the first of June the Invalid Corps had left the city— Brush and the 




guileless little Englishman for Suffern ; Fisher for Lackawaxen as 
his first stopping place, and Gunn for a sojourn at and about Monti- 
cello. 




II. 



"NO SARATOGA IN MINE. 




HAD laid my plans to 
spend the summer at 
Saratoga as usual. 
My friends had been 
absent two weeks, and I had 
heard nothing of them. So I concluded 
tliat I could not better employ my time 
pending the opening of the Saratoga 
season than by taking a run up the Erie, 
knocking around amcwig the Pennsyl- 
vania hills for a lew days, and looking up the Invalid 
Corps to see how it was getting on. 

" It'll please the boys," thought I, "and I can stand 
it to be bored for a fortnight or so." 

I chose first to spend a few days in the lower Dela- 
ware valley before hunting up my friends, being at- 
tracted thereto by a description of the region about 
Milfordand Dingman's, in Pike County, Pennsylvania^ 
in a little Erie Railway guide book I picked up somewhere. So on the 





19th of June, 1881, at nine in 
the morning, behold me 
seated in an Erie Railway Pull- 
man car, with a ticket for Port 
Jervis in my hat, and a few 
minutes later flying toward 
my destination. Details of 
the ride from Jersey City are 
nnecessary. We bowled along 
rough two great States and four 
famous counties ; spun around the bases of 
high wooded hills, and drove through rocky 
I passes ; swept by fragrant orchards and velvet 
' fields ; skirted crystal lakes and tumbling 
streams; climbed high mountain ranges, 
whence the grandest views spread away into 
the mellow distance, and thundered down the 
slope of the greatest of these into the bustling, 
hill-environed village of Port Jervis. The ride 

was luxu- 
r-. rious, ex- 



^5'%- started, amid the crush and hurry of scores 

^"•■''^^^._ of other pilgrims to the summer lands down 
the Delaware valley and up among the lofty hills of Sullivan county. A 
short, thick set man, whose marked feature was a white high hat which 
gave indubitable evidence of having been more frequently and more 
severelv crushed than was aesthetic Lady Jane in the opera, and which 
had much more reason than she had for lamentation over the encroach- 
ing touch of time, rescued me from the jam. 
" Milford ? " said he. 



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" Milford," said I. 
•' Checks ? '' said he. 
" Checks," said I. 

" Gimme 'em. Right this way,'' said he. 
I handed over my checks and followed him. 

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occupied the seat with me. 



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He stowed me away in a 
great open, roomy, sight- 
ly, and airy conveyance, 
where a dozen other pil- 
grims had preceded me. 
He mounted to the driv- 
er's seat, and shouting out 
directions to some one 
about " coming on with 
the baggage," started us 
at a rattling pace " down 
the valley." A sharp eyed 
but rather mature lady 
As we 




She was unmistakably a native, 
started she nodded to me and said: 

" Nice day." 

The fact was undeniable, and I agreed with 
her. 

" Boarder ? '' slie asked. 

" I beg pardon," said I. 

" What for ? " asked she. 

" I mean I don't understand you," I ex- 
plained. 

" Ain't you a city boarder ? " she said. 

" Oh ! " said I. " Well I s'pose I am." 

From that time on the mature lady seemed to think it incumbent upon 
her to take me under her especial charge, and be at once guide, philos- 
opher, and friend. .She talked so fast that punctuation marks had but 
little to do with her conversation. She seemed a veritable but ancient 
.Susan Nipper out on a summer jaunt. 

"Nice country 'bout here," she said, " and this ride down the Dela- 
ware can't be beat, the road is so awful smooth, Jake's wagons is good, 
and his horses, and the scenery is the finest in the land. When was 
you here last ?" 

I was obliged to say that I was making my first visit to the Delaware 
valley. We were by this time crossing the river, over a long suspension 
bridge, into Pennsylvania. The view up and down the valley was most 
charming. My garrulous female companion gave her arm a sudden 
sweep to the left. 

"Jersey ! " said she. 

Then she flung her hand forward, as if throwing a stone at a cow. 



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" Pennsylvany ! " she said. 

Jerking her thumb back over her shoulder, she said : 

"York State!" 

Then she looked at me as much as to say, What do you think of ihat^ 
now ? I was all in the dark. She enlightened me. "Three states and 
three counties come together down the river a-piece," said she, "and 
you can go to a rock not m.ore than a mile from here and put your three 
fingers on the whole of 'em at once, which is quite a funny thing, ain't 
it, and puzzles the sheriff sometimes. That's High P'int up yonder with 



the observatory on it, 
but it's six miles off and 
high, and has a big lake 
very deep and cold; and 
rich there with a sum- 
days if he's only smart 
chance. 

that my mature travel- 
for it, I sub- 
learned, and, 
information 
in her run- 
way I found ! 
every partic- 
"Them 
over there 
the Devil's 
went on, 
part of the 
range rising from the 
river, the entire face of 
from base to summit, 
gle ; " but what they call 
is more than I know, 
the old boy couldn't 
slid out yonder and come 
and the goodness knows 






looking only a step away, 
nearly two thousand feet 
plumb on the top of it, 
some one is bound to get 
mer hotel one of these 
enough to see the 
"High Pint" was all 
ing companion claimed 
sequently 
in fact, all the 
she gave me 
ning, quaint 
correct in 
ular. 

white rocks 
in Jersey is 
Slide," she 
pointing to a 
mountain 
New Jersey side of the 
which was solid rock 
slanting at a sharp an- 
it the ' Devil's Slide ' for 
unless it was because 
stand it in Jersey and 
over into Pennsylvany,. 
he ain't slid away from 



here yet, nor won't be likely to." 

We were bowling along over a road as hard as cement, and embowered 
in shade. A bold ridge of hills, crowned with a perpendicular ledge of 
rock, rose many hundred feet above us on one side. Green fields and 
pleasant groves spread between us and the river, which appeared in view 
occasionally, dotted with islands and winding along at the base of the 
Jersey mountains in many a capricious curve. 

" The road's just as good as this for thirty mile down the river," my 
garrulous friend assured me, " and if the people only had some snap 



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about 'em they could make it a good deal better. One family owns this 
land along the river as far as you can see, and back on the hills as much 
further; and the man that founded the estate died over in that little 
house, and the people 'round here used to tell awful stories about how 
he got his start, and they say he had gold buried all around the house, 
but nobody ever found any of it as I ever heerd of." 
By and by we pass an ancient building by the roadside. 

^ " That used to be a tavern," said 
ir,0M my traveling companion, " and the 
_3 (i^ (jp* man that kept it might have been 
j^^^^^^^^^'^ ^v>' rich, but he ain't, and he don't keep 
-^ It any more ; and the man that does 




ceep it don't keep a tavern, but 
farms the place, and I guess he ain't 
getting rich very fast. That lot of 
islands and rifts over there in the 
river, is Punkey's, and they call it Punkey's because once there was a big 
freshet in the river just as pumpkins was ripe, and the water rose clear 
up in the fields and carried the pumpkins down stream till the river was 
crammed full of them, and they got choked in the rifts yonder and piled 
up ten feet thick, so they got to calling the place Pumpkin Rift, and by 
and' by it got the name of Punkey's, and they know it by that from the 
head of the river to tide." 

The road climbs a long, sharp hill at this spot, and looking up the 
river the view is one never to be for- 
gotten. My encyclopediacal friend dis- <:zrr ^^^'•=^'-^=^' 
turbed my admiring gaze by tugging '^f;^ 
at my sleeve and saying — 

" If you'll look ahead of you you'll 
see a mountain rising up and looking 
from here like a circus tent, but it 
ain't a circus tent, it's the knob at Mil- 
ford, and that streak of hills behind it 
runs clear down to the Water Gap. 
Those are the Delaware Cliffs just be- 
low it, the highest p'int being Utter's 
Peak ; and if you stay long about here 
don't forget to go up there and you'll see more of the country at one 
sweep than you could get over in a week, it not being hard to get there, 
and the Cliffs being solid rock from top to bottom, and not a very 
pleasant place to fall from, though a boy once did tumble from the 
highest place, and they found him- nearly three hundred feet from the 
top, the fall not killing him, and he lived to be seventy years old, 
his picture now a hanging in the Sawkill House in Milford, with 
all the history on it, painted by Bensel in 1871, the year Squire 








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died, his name being Squire Brink. You'll find Milford a nice 
place, but people has been coming early this season, and unless you've 
got a place spoke for, you'll have a hard time to get one, though there 
is seven big sum- ^^ .^ 
mer hotels and lots 1 '^ '^-.« 
of boarding-houses, 




and they're all good, 
and if you get a place 
you're lucky, and if I 
was you I wouldn't for- 
get that there isn't a 
finer boarder country in 
the whole valley than 
there is at Dingman's, 
eight miles further down 
the river, where there's 
more waterfalls than any 
place you ever see, the 
country being as full of 
creeks as a map of Penn- 
sylvany is of railroads, 
and they a coming from 
back in the woods down 
a grade and over rocks 

quite astonishing, and full of 
f trout, and hotels where you can 

get a meal of victuals that'll 

make you think of the time you 

lived home with your mother. 

— Jake, hand me my box. I get 

out here — good-by." 

The stage had hardly stopped 

before she was out and away. 



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week in the valley. 



"We were in Milford. I will let the guide-book describe the place as it 
■did for me. Enough to say that Susan Nipper was correct as to the 
chances of finding a room, but I finally secured most excellent quarters 
at theCrissman House, a large hotel with broad piazzas, neat and tidy sur- 
roundings, and a home-like look that pleased 
me. I soon found that all of the many 
hostelries in the place were extremely pop- 
ular. I also learned in time that the city 
guest, no matter at which one he stopped 
was of the firm and unalterable opinion 
that his house was the one excellent be- 
yond all others. 

I arrived in the Delaware Valley on June 
.- 19. I intended to remain three days. Re- 
ferring to my diary, I see that I left on 
the 20th of October! The Saratoga season 
slipped from my mind before I had been 
I could not find time to hunt up my friends 
of the Invalid Corps, so absorbed, fascinated, enchained was I with my 
surroundings. The jolly people I met ; the clamberings among hills 
and cliffs ; the dreamy walks 
in shadowy glens ; the moon- 
light nights afloat upon the 
mirroring river ; the rugged 
jaunts to lakes, high among the 
hills; the following of turbu- 
lent brooks with willowy rod 
and dancing fly, tempting the 
rare trout from his home be- 
neath ripples and foam -flecks ; 
the awe-inspiring presence of 
cataract after cataract, that give voice in dark gorges, deep ravines, 
and weird chasms, throughout this most wonderful valley— all these held 
1^:^N me as in a charmed 

' .^ spell which I could not 

break. 

If there is another 
such a region for water- 
falls within a hundred 
miles of New York, 
where can it be ? The 
nearest Catskills are 
125 miles distant; the New Hampshire region, 340. This Delaware 
region is but 100 miles, or only a five hours' ride from the city. On six 





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mountain brooks between Milford and Dingmans there are not less than 
two hundred striking" cataracts, all within an area of country nine miles 
in length by two miles in width. 

And so, with excursions to some waterfall, or lake, or glen, or moun- 
tain-top ; wilh drives 
along the great natural 
boulevard of the Dela- 
ware Valley, or over 
the romantic mountain 
roads ; with now a day 
devoted to a trout 
stream, then a day to 
bass in the river, or 
pickerel in the lakes, 
and still another to 
raids on woodcock 
haunts ; with a thou- 
sand and one social 
diversions and odd 
merry-makings— some- 
thing new, fresh and inviting every day— my summer glided by all too 
■quickly. 




III. 



"NO ADIRONDACKS IN HIS." 





4-^f?f^^*^ IV n^. HAD been six weeks 
in my new fields 
Elysian before it oc- 
curred to me that I 
was decidedly selfish and unthoughtful. I had found 
the very place the Invalid Corps were seeking ! 
"P^ I had discovered their longed-for sanitarium, and 
had never let them know it. I was revelling 
0^ thoughtlessly where Brush could at once find correction 
^fj/ for his besetting fault, and secure the picture that would do 
the business for the Hanging Committee ; where Gull's hay 
''* fever would be instantly exorcised like an evil spirit before a 
holy charm ; where Fisher and Gunn would find new life, and 
unceasing duty for their rods and guns. I felt guilty, and wrote 



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at once to each member of the Invalid Corps, telUng him of the fair 
region of health and happiness where I had the good fortune to 
cast my lines, and besought each to lose no time in bringing him- 
self and his ailments to my lotus land and find panacea for them 
all. In a few days I heard from Fisher. He wrote from some- 
where in the mountains far up the river. He was of course surprised 
to hear that I was in the valley, and thanked me for my ijolicitude in his 
behalt ; "but I have no ailments," he wrote. "If you refer to that 
invoice of slow death I imported from the South, let me tell you that it 
has entirely disappeared, and I am as sound as a dollar and hearty as a 

buck. By the way, speaking of 
bucks," Fisher went on, " I am 
^^^ just gnashing my teeth because 
, s^ K / ^^^ ^''^\/-i this is the close hunting sea- 
V-, \/2. — ■'^^^Igfmii'.'^''^ ' s°^- ^ could have killed a dozen 
lul^h-^'^^'i^——^ — "'deer since I began knocking 
around in this wild country. Only 
two or three days ago, while I 
was trout-fishing on the Shohola Creek, back of Lackawaxen, a big fat 
five-prong buck sprang from his bed of sweet ferns not more than twenty 
feet ahead of me, and swept away over the ridge, offering one of the 
prettiest shots I ever saw; If you think any one will see me in New 
York before Thanksgiving, you make a mistake. Sam Gunn, who is 
carried away with the manner in which he has been able to enjoy him- 
self over in Sullivan County, drove into Cochecton last week, and we 
had a jolly reunion. We made up to stay out through the hunting 
season, and take back a load of veni- 
son, rabbits and grouse, and may- 
be a bear or two. Sam knows all the 
places around Monticello where they 
are plenty, and I've got the Pike Coun- 
ty field, the front ridges of Sullivan, and 
the Beaverkill country, down to a dot. 
When you hear any one raging over 
the Adirondacks again, refer him to 
me. Let me give him a whirl up 

through this ' neck 6' timber,' as the backwoods natives call it, and he'll 
never want to spend the half of another summer in getting up to his 
retreat in the North Woods, in order that he may be occupied during 
the other half, smeared with tar and kerosene, and aided by a sooty 
smudge, in fighting for his existence against mosquitoes and gnats. No 
Adirondacks for me. In all my tramps up through here I have yet to 
see or hear a mosquito. How will that go down ? 




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"This upper Delaware is 'simply immense,' Scenery? I would 
never dare to attempt any description of that. For which overhaul your 
guide-book, and when found make a note on it. I have taken in the 
whole valley from Shohola to the Beaverkill, which I reach from Han- 
cock. I have been on twenty-five different trout streams. The country 
is full of them. As for lakes, it beats anything- I ever saw in my travels, 
except in Maine. It may seem a little strange, but it is an actual fact, 
that in a circuit of less than forty miles — taking in parts of Pike, Wayne 





and Sullivan Counties — there are two hundred and fifty mountain lakes.- 
You find them all over. They are perched on the tops of the highest 
hills — none of them less than a thousand feet above tide — and the sur- 
roundings of many of them ap- 
pear now just as they must 
have appeared when the In- 
dians were the only dwellers 

''^W^W,f^i!0^/lf!^ ^" ^^^ wilderness. They are 
-^-xx. ^^Hu. ,.■ .'^w'lttiiyMiilpV iWy all stocked with game fish, and, 
'0C^%Wy /^^,£ffy€fu^ZlAr^ with the exception of the bass 

fishing in the Delaware at 
Lackawaxen andNarrowsburg, 
I never enjoyed better sport with the rod than the score or so of these 
lakes I have visited has given me. 

"There are lots of city people up through here this season. I find 
them in every village along the Erie, and in places six miles or more off 
the line. They come early and stay late ; fish, hunt, row, picnic, dance, and 
eat, drink and be merry generally. At Shohola and Lackawaxen I am in 
the center of the famous Pike County game region and scenery, and 
many of the lakes mentioned. At Narrowsburg, Cochecton and Calli- 
coon, I am surrounded by lakes, brooks and forests in Wayne and Sul- 
livan counties. At Hancock I find easy approach to the Beaverkill and 
head waters of the Delaware. By the Honesdale Branch of the Erie 
I reach some of the best hunting and fishing, and enjoy about once a 
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"V-^ycv^v^- week that most 
\^^ exhilarating of all the 
i'&B^ experiences I ever 
''^'^^^^23^H^'5^ had, the ride over 
-4-*^5r^ ^' the Moosic High- 

lands by the novel gravity rail- 
roads. That is something no 
words can give you any idea of. You 
might just as well try to paint the ef- 
fects' of a Turkish bath. If it is the 
last thing you do, come up and get a 
new lease of life by an excursion over 
the Gravities ! " 

And so Fisher ran on for pages. 

It was plain to be seen that he had found 

Ats land of promise. Sam Gunn merely 

sent me word that I would live to regret it 

it I didn't pack up and join him at Mon- 

ticello at once. " When I see you," said 

he, " I'll tell you all about it. I have sent 

lor Brush, as the people up here are crazy 

to see what a man with the asthma looks 

like." 

After two weeks had passed, and Brush 
had not replied to my letter, I concluded 
that he had not met with success in the High- 
lands, and had gone 
back to New York, and 
was probably waiting at 
the Coroner's office for 
some of us to "drop 
in " and have the ver- 
dict rendered accord- 
ing to his request. 



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IV. 
SOME LITTLE DIVERSIONS. 



NE meets all sorts of odd people at summer resorts, 
and I came in contact with one of the oddest kind in 
the Delaware Valley last season. He was a middle 
aged man, whose hobby was to court acquaintanceship 
with noted artists, literati, actors, capitalists, and so on, 
and to delight in pointing out spots that had been fa- 
vorite ones with such of that class during 
visits to the valley. This odd creature 
m afforded me a gi-eat deal of pleasure. I fre- 
quently took long tramps with him, and he 
was often my companion in drives 
up and down the river. 




" There," he would say, " is where Whitteridge, the artist, found the sub- 
ject of one of his most celebrated pictures. Yonder, from along that creek, 
Granville Perkins drew some charming 
bits. Stedman, the poet, was inspired to 
some of his most beautiful word-pictures 
up among those cataracts; and Winslow 
Homer, who was once a steadyvisitor here 
said that he was always lost in admiration 
whichever way he turned along that 
hillside-road, which loses itself in the 
clump of chestnuts yonder. John Craig, 
the famous water-color painter, who 
was drowned a few years ago in Lake 
Geneva, Switzerland, used to sit by the 
hour in the glen down there with his 
sketch-book and easel. W. H. Beard secured a number of character- 
istic studies in this vicinity, and Weir finished some fine work here some 
years ago. That path yonder, leading into the woods, is a favorite 
retreat of Chancellor, Howard Crosby; and President McCosh, of Prince- 
ton, used to declare that he never knew what nature was capable of 
until he explored those Dingman brook glens. The Morans were rather 
partial to the Sawkill country when they were in the valley. . Joe Jeffer- 
son offered a big price for that farm on the hill there, and a still bigger 
one for another bit of land along the river road, but couldn't buy either. 




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The President of the Home Insurance Company offered a large figure 
for that corner lot over there, and would have put up a stunning resi- 
dence, but the owner held out for a hundred dollars more, and this place 
lost the chance. Launt Thompson, the sculptor, occupied that sightly 
apartment in the stone building one summer. While Mrs. Harris was 
writing Richard Vandermarck she had apartments in that cottage dgwn 

the street, and over just beyond that knoll there ." 

And so this reminiscent old gentleman used to run on, as the different 
points of interest appeared in view and suggested his subject. I hold 
him and Susan Nipper in the most grateful recollection. 




I certainly shall never forget the day I killed the big trout in the Del- 
aware River, at the mouth of the Vandermarck Creek. I had been told 
that the spot was a favorite one for large trout, but that they were too 
wily to be caught. Just at sundown, one warm afternoon, I tried my 
flies on them. I made a dozen casts or more without tempting one of 
the shy beauties to a strike. I was on the point of reeling up my line 
and going home in disgust. Then a whirling crown of foam a long cast 
away attracted my attention. I succeeded in laying a white miller 
squarely on it. A flash, a shower of broken foam, and I knew that at 
least one veteran trout had been deceived. How he struo-o-ied to free 



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himself! Now plunging deep down toward the bottom ; then darting to 
the surface and leaping above it in frantic efforts to escape ; now forcing 
me to my waist in water 



by mad rushes toward 
the other shore, then 
suddenly doubling and 
flying back toward me, 
until my skill was taxed 
to its best to foil the 
stratagem — to and fro, 
up and down, hither and 
thither, this game and 
cunning captive fought 
for liberty, until, twenty 
minutes after his mis- 
taken strike, he surrendered to the cruel dexterity of his captor, and 
yielded up his life. Plump, savory and brilliant, he was a prize fit for 
a Walton. 

" A three-pounder, sure," remarked a native, who had watched the 
struggle with glowing eyes and many excited directions. And so he 
was, a three-pounder and over. 

Among the indelible recollections of last season's diversions is my 
excursion to Silver Lake, near Dingman's. There was a party of us. 
Brink Pond had been suggested as the proper thing to do. 

" Now," said the judge, " take my advice, and don't go there. I've 
been there. There's lots of pickerel i^n the lake, but the size is what ails 
'em. Now, I'm giving you an idea of the size of the pickerel there 
when I tell you that I used a shiner of ordinary size for bait when I 
fished in this lake. "I fished three hours. Every little while I'd get what 
I thought was a bite. I'd yank up my hook, and find nothing. What 
bothered me was that the shiner seemed as lively as when I first put the 
hook through him. And another thing puzzled me. The shiner began 
to swell out like a toad-fish. ' I believe that hook has poisoned 
the ba,it-fish,' said I to myself. So I pulled it out of the water, took my 
hook out of it, and dropped the shiner in the bottom of the boat. He 
died in a little while. Then I thought I'd just open him and see what 
was the matter. I found nine pickerel in him. The pickerel were so 
blamed small in that pond that the bait-fish had swallowed 'em. We 
don't want any of that pond, I guess, do we ? We'll take in Silver Lake 
this time.'' 

And we went to Silver Lake — one of the most charming bits of hill- 
environed water that ever mirrored the sky. A more glorious day's 
sport than we had never came to angler since the wanderings of quaint 
Piscator and his "gentle scholar" by their favorite waters, in the long 
time ago. I lost faith in the judge's veracity that day, however. On 



our arrival home at night another party of sportsmen had just returned 
with a hundred of the largest, fattest pickerel ever brought into town. 

" Where'd you get 'em ? " asked the judge, excitedly. 

" Brink Pond,'' said the party. 

The judge explained. He said that it was a year since he fished in Brink 
Pond, " and the pickerel are the deuce and all for growing, you know." 

I found something else on my return to the hotel — a letter in Brush's 
well-known chirography. The postage on it must have cost him a 
dollar. 

'• Well," said I, " the old boy isn't dead yet, at any rate. Let's see 
what he^s got to say for himself." 




V. 

OTHER PEOPLE IN CLOVER. 

In the Hudson Highlands, October, 1881. 

Y DEAR JACK':— I 

received your letter 

of course, but, bless 

your heart, I have 

had no desire or 

occasion to quit 

these scenes. As I 

am on the point of 

packing up for getting back to the city, I 

thought I would seize a few minutes and get 

rid of some of my enthusiasm by bursting it on 

you. 

Well, the atmosphere I found among these 

) mountains has made itself so disagreeable to my 

C asthma that it has actually deserted me. I don't 

know but it may call on me when I am " at 

home." but it has made itself very scarce here. 




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This is a wonderful atmosphere, and from Suffern to the Hudson, along 
this range of hills, exerts the same influence on me. Poor little Gull's 
--] hay-fever has taken unto itself wings, and he 
returned to New York three weeks ago to carry 
the prospective Mrs. Gull the joyous news. 
There never was a happier man than he after 
we had been here a fortnight or so. 

" Aw — by Jove !" said he," I can — aw — begin to 

see the land- 
scapes, you 
know." His eye- 
glass remained 
in place at least 
ten minutes. 
" And — aw — 
Brush." he con- 
tinued, " I posi- 
tively wrote a 
letter to — aw — 




Julia, to-day, and only 
sneezed twice, you 
know. This is a doosed 
clever kentry. Brush. Aw — doosed clever, b-y-y Jove !" 

What a quaint, picturesque, rugged, and altogether delightful region 
is the Ramapo valley, to be sure 1 One would scarcely believe that he 
could find surroundings 
so wild and almost pri- 
mitive within an hour 
of New York. The val- 
ley from Suffern to Tur- 
ner's is a mine of wealth 
for the antiquarian, and 
an endless field of stu- 
dies for the artist. There is scarce 
ly a spot which does not give th 
natives opportunity to pour 
your ear a story of the revoluti 
the Indian times. Here was "W 




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quarters ; there General so-and-so's command was stationed ; yonder 
was a fortification ; along that road the patriot army took its way; 
by that pass Washington held the key to communication with other 
commands; yonder the infamous cow-boys made some bloody raid; 
and much more, the natives delight to tell and show you. You 
know how delighted Gull must have been to hear and see it all. One 
day an enthusiastic citizen captured him. He took him from spot to 
spot, and showed him relic after relic. 




native, pointmg to 

ancient stone house 

on the suburbs of Suffern, "you see a house where the father of our 

country once slept, more than a century ago.'' 

"Aw — glad to hear it, I'm sure," said Gull, sneezing, wiping his eyes, 
and venturing to put his eye-glass in place. " Doosed clever man, you 
know. But — aw — my dear fellaw, cawn't you show me now where I 
can — aw — get a little brawndy and soda, you know." 

But the charming bits of scenery ! Such rocks, thrown about as they 
are along the Ramapo, from the river's edge to the summits of the lofty 
mountains that rise above it, I never saw. And such glimpses of river; 



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such quiet nooks, and unheard of walks ; such weird corners in the 
woods; such combinations of them all! If that hanging committee 
doesn't resign and go to house painting when they see some of the sub- 
jects I am taking back from Rainapo and from among these Highlands, 
I will lose my faith in art and try my hand at plaques ! 

You of course noticed the mountain walls that hem in the Ramapo 
valley as you passed through it on the cars from Suffern. You couldn't 




well help noticing them, even if you cared to, .for few landscapes have 
features so distinguishing. The Southfield mountains are on the west 
— I'm so full of information about this region that if I fail to paralyze 
the examining committee, and am not appreciated in plaques, I am 
thinking strongly of becoming a tourists' guide — and the Southern 
Highlands are on the east. This range rises abruptly from the west 
shore of the Hudson River, below Newburgh — or rather the Hudson, in 
some remote age, forced a passage through the rocky barrier and found 



26 

thoroughfare to the sea— and terminates just as abrHptly at Suffern, 
where the Ramapo, like the Hudson, cut its way out of confinement 
when the world was some thousands of years younger. Well, what I started 
out to say was that although you doubtless noticed and were enchanted 
by the physical beauties of the landscape due to these encroaching hills, 
you could not, in passing through the valley, participate in their greater 
individual charms. You noted their height, wondered at their fantastic 
shape, and their remarkable geological formations ; but you did not 
clamber among their rocky depths ; climb to their summits by zig-zag 
ways, under overhanging ledges, through dark defiles, and around 
gigantic bowlders, once the sport of glacial seas. You could not see 
the crystal lakes that crown summit after summit, some in the perpetual 

shadow of primeval forest, some well, my dear boy, you'd scarcely 

believe it, but from the Southfield range, west of the Ramapo, along the 
Highlands to the Hudson, there are a good score of the most charming 
lakes you ever saw. They are, in fact, great springs of the purest 
water, and not one of them less than a thousand feet above the sea. 
My friends the Lorillards — I say " my friends," because Pve bought my 
tobacco of them for years and years, and have always found it good. 
Now, a party that sells you bad tobacco ra«7 be a friend of yours, can 
he ? Ergo, a party that sells you good tobacco, must be a friend ? Eh ? 
Hence, I say my friends, the Lorillards, own acres and acres of the 
Southfield mountains, and one of the finest of all the mountain lakes,, 
only a mile or so from several stations on th'fe Erie. As for that, there's 
a dozen or more of these lakes close by the railroad. What strikes me 
as odd is that nobody has found out that they are here. I mean no dis- 
respect to the natives by this, of course. They know these lakes, you 
can rest assured, and just where the biggest bass, the most savage pick- 
erel, and the plumpest perch lurk in their waters, and just how to lure 
them to their death. But why don't some New York fellows, or some 
other fellows with money, know something about these lakes and their 
surroundings, and come up here and make some of the most popular 
summer resorts in the country ? A little over an hour from New York; 
trains running so often they almost make your head swim, and — say, 
old boy, if you know any one who wants to make his everlasting fortune 
and do New Yorkers a kindness, put him on this Highland lake racket. 
I won't charge him anything for this pointer, only, when he gets his 
house going, I would rather expect a fair room on the second floor, a 
regular plate at the first table, use of boat and tackle, and a receipted 
bill at the end of the season. You might mention this to him. 

Of course, Gull and I haven't visited all these lakes, but we have 
rowed and fished on some of them. When I came into this region I 
could no more have climbed up these mountains and knocked around 
these lakes than I could have made you a study in black and white with. 



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a chrome pastile. And as for Gull, bless his innocent heart, if he had' 
attempted it, he would have shed pails full of involuntary tears, and been 
overwhelmed in an avalanche of sneezes. 

The day before we took leave of the Ramapo Valley we made an ex- 
cursion, under escort of a patriotic native, to one of the mountains in this 
range known by the distinctive title of High Torne, reached from Ramapo 
station and Macfarlan's charming summer retreat at that place. 
Whence the name I know not. I can understand the High part, for 
there are two thousand good solid feet between the base and the summit 



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of the hill. If the Torne part of the nomenclature were bereft of the " e," 
I could, without any great stretch of imagination, fit the name to the sub- 
ject. Because, the peak certainly is torn, .and torn high. In short, the 
elements that made it ragged and jagged must have been on a high old 
tear when they did it. Hence, high old tear, high old torn, High Torn. 
That " e'' must be an error. If you are up in philology, etymology, or 
whatever it is that gets at the roots of words, I wish you'd try and dig up 
the root of this Torne business, and see if I have made the correct deriv- 
ation. 

Well, anyhow, the mountain had been frowning at us ever since we 
" struck " the valley, It was three miles away, but it looked as if you 



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might run square up against it if you paced off a pistol range towards it. 
I had said to Gull that if we failed to look down on the surrounding coun- 
try from the crown of that mountain before we went away, we were fit 
for neither treason, stratagems nor spoils, and it were base flattery to call 
us lazy. 

"Aw — y-a-a-s,'" said Gull, "Of course, you know. I've — aw — 
been thinking of that, and 'av an idea, that will — aw — be of service to 
some of these — aw — people here, and I intend giving it to them, you 
know. Aw — I went up in a balloon once, you know, and they're a 
doosed clever — aw — institution. Brush. Doosed clever, by Jove ! " 

I was surprised to hear that the timid and retiring Gull had ever made 
a balloon voyage, and told him so, at the same time congratulating him 
on the possession of so much courage and nerve. " I wouldn't have 
dared," said I. 

" Aw — thanks, awfully. Brush," he replied. "^ But it wasn't exactly a 
voyage, you know. It — aw — might have been, though, if the beastly rope 
had — aw — parted, you know." 
" Oh, a captive balloon," said I. 

"Aw — y-a-a-s. I believe they ^/^ call it a captive balloon," said 
Gull. "We ascended a hundred feet towards 
the — aw — clouds, you know, and then 
they hauled us back. It was doosed 
clever, you know, and is just the thing 
to take fellows up that — aw — hum- 
mock yonder. Clever idea, 
eh, Brush ? I'll give it 
to some of these — 
aw — fellows here, 
you know ! I will, 
b-y-y Jove 1 " 

But we hadn't 
time to wait for the 
putting of Gull's bril- 
liant idea into execu- 
tion, so we went up High 
Torne in the rather inconvenient, slow, 
but sure old way— on foot. 

On the summit. Heated, flushed, op- 
pressed for breath— but look yonder ! The 
Alleghenies, the Kittatinny mountains, the 
Delaware 'Water Gap, miles and miles away, with all the intervenmg 
panorama of hills and valleys, towns and hamlets. Tired, dusty, pant- 
ing ; but see there ! The farther Catskills, the upper Hudson Valley, 
the Shawangunk peaks, the Delaware Highlands! Hundreds of miles 




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of the flower of American scenery beneath the eye, and — would you 
believe it ? New York harbor glistening in the sun, and, seen through 
my iield-glass, the shipping in the bay, and the piers of the Brooklyn 
bridge standing out distinct and grand against the sky ! 







_i,.jsj!ti- "^fea- 



I write you from a charming spot in 
the Highlands, on the Newburgh 
p-l^ Shortcut of the Erie Railway. Every 
'''fl*^ station on this arm of the Erie is the 
center of endless charms. We enjoyed 
immensely the ride through the 
Ramapo Valley to Turners. While we 
were waiting for our train to start from 
Turner's Station to Newburgh, Gull 
after quizzing through his eye-glass an urchin whose wardrobe seemed to 
have been made up from his big brother's hat and his little brother's 
trousers, addressed the youth on a subject which had evidently been puzzling 
him for some time, and on which 
I presume he supposed I was no 
wiser than himself. 

"Aw — I say — my dear fellow," 
said he, " why do they — aw — 
call this road the Short Cut, you 
know ? '' 

Promptly answered the urchin. 
'"Cause it ain't ten miles furder , 
to Newburgh this way than 'tis \ 
t'other way, I spose. If 'twas 




/i>-^— ~ 



ten miles furder this way they'd call it the Long Cut, mebbe. " 

Gull's eye-glass gleamed on this seedling of an Orange County farmer 
for a minute or more. Then, evidently satisfied, he said : 

"Aw— y-a-a-s. That's it, doubtless, my dear fellow. And-aw— 
you know. Brush," said Gull, turning to me, after considering the mat- 
ter profoundly, and suddenly brightening with a new idea, " they must 
—aw— call those mountains the Highlands because they're so— aw— 
much above the valley, you know. If they were below it, they'd call 
'em the — aw — Lowlands, I s'pose. Doosed clever people, you know. 
Aw — doosed clever, by Jove ! " 

What a glorious ride from the Ramapo base of the Highlands to their 
northern terminus on the Hudson at Newburgh ! Gradually the train 
ascends the mountain chain, making its way through friendly openings 
where streams made passage ages ago, and where charming villages 
nestle amid the widening acreage "of fragrant meadows. What exhil- 
aration in the air that plays forever about these wooded heights, and 



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carries health to all without the asking ! What pictures greet the eye- 
sentinel crags watching the valley, unchanged by centuries of guardian- 
ship; lakes gleaming in the sun like 
■ — - — "'--^ .---" Z' jewels; woods sweeping down from 

rocky summits and meeting the fertile 
fields that stretch away and meet 
woods and mountain bases again ; 
cattle feeding on a thousand hills ; 
and the crowning scene of all, when 
the Hudson breaks full in view, as 
the train gains the summit of the 
route, and the river, city, beetling- 
cliffs and ridges, hazy in the distancci 
lie spread in one grand panorama 
hundreds of feet below ! 

And amid this wealth of nature's 
best handiwork, I have simply gorg- 
ed myself with pleasure. I have 
fished, and hunted, and sketched 
from Stockbridge's cluster of charm- 
ing mountain lakes at Central Valley — 
eleven lakes, nearly two thousand feet above the tide — to Cornwall-on-the 
Hudson, with its castellated villas and commodious and numerous hotels 
for summer guests ; its aerial drives and pathways; its life-renewing 
atmosphere — an elixir drawn from the soft breath of the spreading bay, 
and cool breezes born among the mountain tops. I have found that en- 
joyment of the attractions of this rare region is not confined to unappre- 
ciative natives. I mean unappreciative in an aesthetic sense ; unappre- 
ciative, because long contact with and contiguity to its beauties and 
charms, have tended to make them commonplace in local estimation. 
Thanks to a few enterprising men, much of the Highland domain has 
been so developed that city-surfeited mortals may find every comfort 
and convenience, and yet be dwellers in the wilds, as it were, surrounded 
by all the charm of mountain solitude and isolation from civilized ways, 
yet on the very threshold oi the city's hum and bustle. Thus, at Cen- 
tral Valley, we find one of these benefactors in the person of sturdy 
Elisha Stockbridge, whose lake-surrounded and mountain-hidden hotel 
is a specimen of what others might offer to seekers after such resorts, at 
a dozen spots along the Ramapo, just as wild and attractive, and miles 
nearer the city. Oliver Cromwell, at Highland Mills, is another; and c.t 
his large hotel on the shores of the lake bearing his name, hundreds 
find pleasure and health annually, and he f^nds profit. Smaller hotels 
and private boarding-houses are scattered along this mountain range 
from the Ramapo to the Hudson, and a season has never yet come dur- 



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ing which they were not all well filled. So you see — but, my dear boy, 
don't think I refer to this matter to keep the idea in your mind of that 

friend of yours whom you are to put up to 
starting that hotel somewhere in the Rama- 
po Mountains, connected with which is to 
be certain privileges for mj-- 
self, attended with a receipt- 
ed bill ! Please don't ! 
\ -=0^ ^y^y^ y^^'^^^^^^kS^^k. I■1?^^^^ 'Yh^ country through here 
v .i:^^^''^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ''^'^ rather discount the Ra- 

mapo folks on revolutionary 
relics and recollec- 



tions, and any one 
who likes that sort 
of thing, and is ach- 
ing to find Washing- 
ton's headquarters, 
Lafayette's h e a d- 
quarters, Clinton's headquarters. Green's headquarters, and revolu- 
tionary, ante-revolutionary — and I don't know but pre-historic — re- 




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mains, reminders and lore, may pack his valise, buy a ticket for New 
Windsor, Newburgh, Washingtonville, or almost any point on the New- 
burgh Short Cut, or Newburgh branch of the Erie, and if he doesn't find 
the region overflowing with all he seeks, he need look nowhere else to 
find it. There are plenty of guide books, and they will give you all the 
details ; and whole chapters are devoted to this part of the country in 
histories of the United States, as I am informed by a native who has 
read one, and still lives at the age of 83. 

I Start to-morrow for home, but reluctantly. Drop in at my den when 
you come to town, hear me breathe, and see my paralyzing pictures. 

Yours, a new man. Brush. 



VI. 
THE CLOSING SCENE. 




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T was now mid-autumn. June, 
with its rich and tender ver- 
dure, and its balmy freshness, 
had changed to crisp, bracing 
October, flaunting the many- 
hued banner of its triumphant 
march on every tree 
-- and shrub. The val- 
ley, with its over-top- 
ping hills, was ablaze 
;--_j_^with the dyes of au- 
tumn. Groves of fiery 
maples brightened the landscape, clumps of sturdy oaks were royally 
clad in purple robes. The sumacs blazed like fire along the field edges 
and on gravelly knolls. Beeches and birches were rich in their yellow 
trappings, and gleamed in the mellow sunlight like burnished gold. The 
caressing woodbine was dyed in crimson, as if with the life-blood o^ 
the trees around whose dead trunks it clung and clambered. Cold hem- 
locks and stately pines stood in the midst of this carnival of color, as 
green, dark and sombre as they have been for a century, perhaps. 
Everywhere — to the right, to the left — far down in the storied valleys 
and high up on the rugged ridges — the same brilliant panorama spread 
itself beneath my eye, as I drove for the last time from Dingman's to 
Port Jervis, that matchless October day, and bade adieu to the "summer- 
land." 



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VII. 
IN THE WILDS OF SULLIVAN. 





HEN Fisher and 
Gunn returned 
to New York late 
m November, they brought with them the veni- 
son and other game they had remained to secure, 
and had never enjoyed a season's camping out so 
much before. Over a dinner at the club, the choice 
dishes of which were venison and grouse killed by 
the two friends, we recounted our past season's experiences. 
"Never went up the Monticello Railroad from ' Port 
Jervis, did you ? " asked Gunn, dropping a lump of sugar in 
his after dinner coffee and lighting his segar. "I know you 
never did, but don't let another season go by without tak- 
ing the trip. Not many locomotive railroads in this country 
carry you up a thousand i !J 

feet in a run of something , , 

like fifteen miles, but this one '■' 

does. When you get there 
you are fifteen hundred feet 
above tide, and almost that 
much below the tops of some 
of the mountains you see all 
around you. On the way up 
I found that nine out of every 



ten passengers were on their way to spend the summer at Sheriff Mor- 
ris's in Monticello, so I naturally concluded that was probably the place 
for me. I hadn't been there long before I was sure of it. There is only 
one Monticello, and it has but one Mansion House. 

" Malaria ! " said the jolly host, when I asked him if there was ever 

such a thing in that region. "Yes, a 
£3 W great many cases. There were as 

many as fifty here only last season. 
-]lsf"^\ ^ They came from New York and Brook- 
^jMiyl'A?! lyn, but disappeared very mysteriously 
in a short time. This air is a little too 
high up for it. It knocks it cold." 
"And so I found out, for in two weeks' 
time I was a new man, and stumping around that country as fresh as a 
lightning-rod agent. There's no end to variety up there, and when you 
get tired of doing the social — the hop business, private theatricals, cha- 





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rades, and otlier liarmless idiocies that women at a summer hotel can 
rope a fellow into — it don't take you long- to find a congenial spot in the 

woods about some of the adjacent lakes, or 

' along one of the dozen or more trout 

streams that tumble around in enchanting 

confusion in the Alonticello district. It 

didn't take me a coon's age to find 

out all the deer ranges of Sulli- 

\an, and the places where you can 

go almost any day and start a bear- 

I mapped 'em all out in my mind, 

and — well, you saw what Fisher 

and I brought in last week. 

" The summer goes by up there 
about the same as 
it does at any 
mountain resort, 
where "you find 
pleasant and con- 
genial people. I 

flirted some, drove around a good deal— splendid drives about Monti- 
cello— rowed till I was as red and greasy as the driver of a beer wagon, 
played croquet and attended picnics as naturally as a young Episcopal 
minister, and fished until it seemed to me there couldn't be another 
trout, pickerel or bass 
left in the whole country. 
I fell in with some tip-top 
fellows, and it was a sight 
to see our commissary 
department sometimes, 
when we started out on 
some fishing excursion. 
It looked like the deliv- 
ery wagon of a wholesale dealer in groceries— wet and dry. 

" It's only twenty-four miles from Monticello to the Delaware valley 
at Cochecton, and I used to drive over every little while and have an 
old-fashioned time with Fisher. This gave me a chance to try the bass 
for a day or so at White Lake, on the way. This lake was once pop- 
ulated with trout that were the wonder of the country. Poor Charles 
Fenno Hoffman killed one in the lake once that weighed eight pounds. 
But some one conceived the brilliant idea that the fate of Sullivan County 
depended on stocking White Lake with pickerel. Pickerel are to trout 
what hawks are to chickens, and it wasn't long before they had cleaned 
them all out. But black bass don't take a back seat for any fish that 




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swinib, and they are now boss- "^ "^-^ -^^^ — 

ing the depths of the lake Pickerel =^ "i^ j 

are plenty there yet, but they don't have ^-— ~ 

much more peace and comfort than do the Jews in Russia. 

" Yes, sir ; I left Sullivan feeling- that I was going away from home, 
and if anybody should ask you where they will be likely to find me next 
summer, tell them that a letter addressed to me, care of the Mansion 
House, Monticello, will be sure to reach me, any time from June to 
November.'' 

"Did you have any mosquitoes up there ? '' asked Fisher. 

"Never heard or saw one,'' replied Gunn. 

And so said we all of us. 



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VIII. 
SOME RESULTS. 



y iJ^UtUjyiN looking over the 

^'..^^t^ IfiS "Society Gossip" of 
apgp^^ a morning news- 
paper last December, I was 
pleased to read the following : 

"The nuptial ceremonies w hich united Mr. 
Thorndike Gull, of Gull Hall, Muddleworth, 
England, and Miss Juliette Ann Smythers, of this 
were witnessed by a large and brilliant assem- 
blage of relatives and friends at the residence of the bride's 
"^(iji^M^ parents, on Wednesday. The happy pair sailed for Europe 
' '■" on Monday.'' 

Gull was «^/ going home a "ghastly wreck, you know.'' 
Y But the following note in the art column of another paper 

was still more gratifying to me : 

''The striking painting this year is a landscape by Philander Brush, 
which occupies the best position on the Academy walls." 
Brush had "paralyzed the Hanging;' Committee." 





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TIME LIMIT OF EXCURSION TICKETS. 

For all stations on the Eastern Division and branches between and 
including Port Jervis and Suffern, Excursion Tickets will be valid on day 
of date and two days thereafter. 

For Pond Eddy and Shohola, on the Delaware Division, Excursion 
Tickets will be valid on day of date and three days thereafter. 

For Lackawaxen, Narrowsburg, Cochecton, and Callicoon, on the 
Delaware Division, and for stations on the Honesdale Branch, Excur- 
sion Tickets wil} be valid on day of <\a.ie.3iU(lfot(r days thereafter. 

J8@°" Excursion Tickets will be good for continuous passage on pas- 
senger trains stopping as per time table at the stations named on the 
tickets, during the time limit as stated on their face, but will not be hon- 
ored after the expiration of the time limit. Except that in the case of 
Excursion Tickets to or from New York or Jersey City, on which the 
printed time limit \s five days or less, if a Sunday or legal holiday inter- 
venes between the date of purchase and the expiration of the time limit 
such tickets will be valid for as many additional days as there are Sun- 
days or legal holidays included in the printed time limit. 

Commutation tickets may be obtained at the Ticket Office, 187 West 
Street. 



All information as to travel over the Erie Railway, tickets, rates, maps, 
time-tables, etc., may be obtained on application at the Ticket Offices 
of the Company, 261, 401, 759, Broadway, and 187 West St., N. Y. ; 
No. 2 Court St., Brooklyn ; yj Hudson St., Hoboken, N. J. ; 183 Mar- 
ket St., Newark ; at the depots foot of Chambers St., or 23d St., North 
River, and in Jersey City. 

All trains on the Erie Railway leave New York from the foot of 
Chambers St. and 23d St. 

JNO. N. ABBOTT, 
General Passenger Agent, 

21 Courtlandt St., N. Y. 



ALONG THE EASTERN DIVISION. 



Rutherford, Bergen County, N. J. 

gi Miles from Netu York /is Trai?ts each zvay daily, 5 from and 3 to Ne-uf 

Yotk Sutiday. 
Fare — Local, 30 Cents; Excursion, 40 Cents; Commutation, 3 Mos., 

$19.00. 
A place of suburban homes. Pure water in abundance. Fine fishing and 
boating in the Passaic River. Woodcock and snipe. Splendid drives, walks 
and shade. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

"LYNDHURST"-D. PL Speer, Manager, Lyndhurst P. O.— i mile. 
Accommodates 20; 7 single rooms ; 6 double rooms; $6 to $g ; $10 to $16; 
$2.00 per day. Discount for season. Farm attached. On Passaic River. 
Boats and tackle $ I per day. Two steamboats to and from Newark six trips 
daily. 

Mrs. C. van RIPER — Five minutes from depot. Accommodates 16 ; 3 
single rooms ; 4 double rooms ; $6 ; $1 per day. Raises vegetables. 



Passaic Bridge. 

11^ Miles from Ne%v York: u Trains from and 14 Trains to New York 

daily ; 3 trains each way Sunday. 

Fare — Same as Passaic. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

JOHN S. CONKLIN — \ mile from depot. Free transportation. Accommo- 
dates 13 ; 3 single rooms; 5 double rooms — $8 single; $14 to $16 for double. 
Discount to season guests. Raises vegetables. Plenty of shade. Large 
grounds. Stream of running water. Fruits. 

Passaic, Passaic County, N. J. 

12\ Miles from New York : 15 T7-aitis from attd 1"] to New York daily; 6 Trains 

from and 4 to New York Sunday. 
Fare — Local, 40 Cents ; Excursion, 55 Cents ; Commutation, 3 Mos., 

$21.00. 

Residence of many New York business men. Churches of .several denomina- 
tions. Best schools. Dundee Lake three miles distant — reached by charming 
drive. In the heart of the Passaic Valley. Fine boating and fishing in the 
Passaic River. P. O. address for Passaic Bridge. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

THE ANDERSON MANSION— Mrs. F. R. Towner, Proprietor— Five 
minutes walk from depot at Prospect Street. On banks of Passaic. Accommo- 
dations for 40 ; 3 single rooms ; 15 double rooms — $7 to $8 single ; $12 to $16 
double ; $1 per day ; children under 10 half price. Discount to season guests. 
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Raises vegetables. FresTi milk, egg=, and poultry. Farm of forty acres. 
Shaded lawn of three acres. Large halls, closets, piazzas. Send for circular. 

KIP MANSION — S. A. Canfield, Proprietor — Near depot. Accommoda- 
tions for 30; 4 single rooms; 12 double rooms ; $6 to $7 single ; $12 to $22 
double ; $1.25 to $2.00 per day. Open all the year. Rooms large and airy. 
Bath-room and closets. Shaded grounds. 



Clifton, Passaic County, N. J. 

13^ Miles from New York: 11 Trains fro??t and \$ io New York daily ; "^ 

Trains from and 3 to New York Sunday, 

Fare — Local, 45c. ; Excursion, 65c. ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $21. 

A charming rural spot. Fine drives to Paterson, Passaic, Rutherford, Hack- 

"ensack and Belleville. Dundee Lake, a popular resort for boating and fishing 

within a short walk. Healthful surroundmgs. Good water. 



HOTEL. 
CLIFTON GROVE HOUSE— J. B. Greibel, Proprietor— Near depot. 
Accommodations for 50 ; lO single rooms ; 20 double rooms ; $8 to $10. 
Rooms large and airy. Cottage near. Large picnic grove attached. 



Lake View, Passaic County, N. J. 

15 Miles from New York .* 11 Trains f 0771 and 14 Trains to New York daily j 

3 Ttains fr077i and ■^ Trains to New York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, 50c. ; Excursion, 70c. ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $22. 

A quiet and attractive suburb of Paterson, overlooking the Passaic Valley, at 

Dundee Lake, a few minutes walk from the depot. Fine boating and fishing 

in the Passaic, 



HOTEL. 
LAKE VIEW HOTEL— P. H. Mace, Proprietor— Three minutes walk from 
depot. Accommodations for 20 ; $8 to $10; $2.50 per day. One mile from 
Passaic River. Livery attached, $4 per day. 



Paterson, Passaic County, N. J. 

17 Miles from New Yo7-k : 27 Trains from New York and 32 trains to New 
York daily : 8 Trains fro7n New York and 10 to New York Simday. 
Paterson is a city of 50,000 inhabitants, and is a place of great manufactories. 
While not strictly a resort for summer guests, its fine surroundings attract 
many visitors. Passaic Falls, one of the famous cataracts of this country, is in 
the heart of the city. 

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Hawthorne, Passaic County, N. J. 

18^ Miles f'om New York: b T7-ains from and 7 Trains to New York daily; 
4 Trains f torn and "i to New York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, 60c. ; Excursion 85c. ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $23.50. 

Preakness Hills on the west. Farming neighborhood. Elevated ground. 
Good fishing in the Passaic. Fine drives. Livery at Paterson. Passaic Falls, 
I mile. 



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BOARDING HOUSES. 

C. J. ACKERMAN — 1\ mile from depot. Transportation 25 cents. Ac- 
commodations for 10: 4 single rooms; 3 double rooms — $6. No discount. 
Furnishes boat. Raises vegetables. 

Mrs. JAMES FENNER — 3^ mile from depot. Conveyance. Accommo- 
dations for 8 adults arid 8 children, $6 to $7 ; children half price. High 
ground. Liveiy. Raises vegetables. 



Ridgewood, Bergen County, N. J. 

22 Miles from New York: 8 Tiains from and -; to New Yof/c daily ; ^ Trains 
fiom and 3 to New York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, 70c.; Excursion, gsc, Commutation, 3 Mos., $25. 
In Paramus Valley. Residence of celebrated public men. Much of anti- 
quarian interest. JBesi of drives. 

FARM HOUSE. 

GEORGE J. HOPPER— ij miles from depot. Accommodations for S— $7 ; 
37 cents per meal. Plenty of shade. Vegetables and fruit in abundance. A 
retired home. ' No boarders wanted for less than 3 months. Livery. 

Mrs. E. D. KEELEY, Box 34, Ridgewood, Bergen Co., New Jersey, | of a 
mile from depot. Accommodation for 20 guests ; board $8 to $10 per week ; 
$1.50 per day. Guests transported free to two trains a day; irregular trains 25 
cents. Rooms large and airy ; broad piazza, extensive view ; excellent water ; 
fine walks and drives. Accommodations for horses and carriages. 



Hohokus, Bergen County, N. J. 

23|- Miles from New York : 7 Traitis fvm and 8 to A^e7v York daily; 4 Trains 

■ fvm a)id 3 to New York Sunday. 

Fare— Local, 75c. ; Excursion, $i ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $26. 

Revolutionary^ground. Residence of Joseph Jefferson, the celebrated actor. 

Ancient church, turned into a prison for American prisoners by the British, still 

standing. Fine drives and walks. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

J. A. OSBORNE — \^ mile from depot. Free transportation to and from 
two trains, morning and evening. Accommodations for 20; 3 single rooms ; 7 
double rooms — $8 to $10 single ; $14 to $16 double ; $1.50 perday. Vegetables 
and fruit from the farm. Eggs, milk, poultry. Old-fashioned farm-house. 

JOHN Q. VOORHEES — | mile. Free conveyance. Accommodations for 
15 ; 3 single rooms, 3 double — $7 — $i.t;o per day. Raises vegetables. 

SH.ADY BROOK FARM— J. M, Leman— li mile. Free carriage. Ac- 
commodations for 20; 3 single rooms ; 7 double — $7 to $8 ; $1.50 per day. On 
Saddle River ; boats free ; 60 acres. Spring water. Plenty shade. Good drives. 
Vegetables, fruit, eggs, Alderney milk, butter, chickens. 

VALLEY FARM — J no. A. Zabriskie, Proprietor — i mile from depot. Free 
carriage. Accommodations for 20; 2 single rooms; 4 double rooms — $140 
$16 double; $1.50 per day. Raises vegetables. Alderney milk; biitter, 
chickens, &c., from farm. 

BROOKSIDE FARM— H. C. Dennett, Proprietor— i^ mile. Accommo- 
date 30 ; 5 single rooms ; 8 double rooms — $6.50, $8 and $16 ; $1.50 per day. 



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From Saturday night till Monday morning, $3. Stream for boating on the 
premises. Boats free. Pure drinking water. 

WOODLAND HOUSE— J. H. Bampber, Proprietor— 1^ mile. Convey- 
ance, regular trains free; irregular, 25 cents. Accommodate 25; 4 single 
rooms: 10 double; $7 to $8 ; $16 to $30; $2 per day; $3 from Saturday 
night until Monday morning. Near Saddle River, Sylvan lake, Franklin lake, 
Ryerson lake. Furnish boats and tackle. Livery, $5 per day. 

LIVERY. 

S. B. VREELAND— Near depot ; $2 to $5 per day. 

W. A. ACKERMAN — Two miles from depot. Free transportation. Ac- 
commodation for 2 ; 20 single rooms ; 9 double ; $7; children $3.50; $2 from 
Saturday till Monday. Raises vegetables. High ground. No malaria or mos- 
quitos. P. O. address : Saddle River, Bergen Co., N. J. 



Allendale, Bergen County, N. J, 

■2'^% Miles from New York: 8 Trains each way daily; 5 Trains froin and 3 to 

New York Sundaij. 

Fare — Local, 80c.; Excursion, $1.10; Commutation, 3 Mos., $28. 

A breezy hamlet among farms and hills and orchards. Great fruit-growing 
region. Pure water and air. 



Ramsey's, Bergen County, N. J. 

28 Miles from New York : 8 Trains each way daily; 5 Trains from and 3 to 

New York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, 85c.; Excursion, $1.15; Commutation, 3 Mos., $29. 

Outlet of Raniapo Valley. Darlington, the famous stock farm of A. B. Dar- 
ling, of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, is near. Healthful. Splendid drives. Great 
fruit-growing region. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

A. DE BAUN— 2i miles. Post Office address : Saddle River, N. J. Con- 
veyance free. Accommodate 20 ; 8 rooms ; $7 to $8. On Saddle River. Raises 
vegetables and fruits. 

SHADY LAWN HOUSE— A. H. Ackerman, Proprietor— i mile from de- 
pot. Conveyance free. Accommodate 25 ; 12 rooms. Horses and carriages 
furnished. Mountain scenery. Plenty of shade. Fresh vegetables, fruit, milk, 
butter and eggs on farm. 

Mrs. D. valentine — Near depot. Accommodate 10. Large airy 
rooms. 

Mrs. J. W. VALENTINE — Near depot. Accommodations for 15 ; 5 
single rooms ; 5 double ; $5 to $7 single ; $8 double ; $1.25 per day; 50 cents 
meal ; liberal discount to season guests. High ground. Fresh vegetables, 
milk, butter, eggs, poultry. 

FARM HOUSES. 

ISAAC RAMSEY — i^ mile from depot. Accommodations for 10. 
A. A. ACKERMAN — i^ mile from depot, Accommodations for 15. Horses 
: and carriages. 



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Mahwah, Bergen County, N. J. 

30 Miles from A'eiv York: 7 Trains from ami 8 Trains to New York 
daily ; 5 Trains from and 4 to New York Sunday. 
Fare — Local, 95 c; Excursion, $1.25; Commutation, 3 Mos., $30. 
The beginning of the celebrated Ramapo Valley scenery. Mountain air,, 
spring water, good drives, cool retreats. 



SUMMER HOTEL. 
MOUNTAIN VIEW HOUSE— David Fox, Proprietor— i mile from 
depot. Same distance from Suffern. Free transportation in covered side-seat 
stage. Accommodations for 60 ; 7 single rooms ; 27 double rooms ; $8 to 
$10 per week for single room ; $18 to $24 per week for double room ; $2 pei 
day. Can furnish boats, fishing-iackle and guns, at reasonable charge. Pro- 
prietor or his man acts as guide at reasonable rates. Furnishes livery to sports- 
men ; $5 per day for team and man. General livery charge, $r.oo, $1.50 per 
hour. Furnishes a four in-hand for pleasure driving, at a reasonable charge. 
Saddle horses for ladies and gentlemen. Fine croquet ground, billiard table, 
etc. Best of references from former guests. Raises vegetables, fruits, etc. 
P. O. address, Suffern, N. Y., or Mahwah, N. J. 

HOTEL. 
MAHWAH HOUSE — A. H. Hagerman, Proprietor — Near depot. Accom- 
modations for 20; 8 single rooms ; $8 per week. Transient, $1 per day. Dis- 
count to season guests. Equipments for sportsmen without charge. Raises- 
vegetables. 

BOARDING HOUSE. 
Mrs. D. W. HOPPER — i mile from depot. Accommodations for 15 ; 3 
single rooms ; 3 double rooms ; $8 single, $16 double ; Children half pirice ; 
$2 per day. No discount. Raises vegetables. 



Suffern^ Rockland County, N. Y. 

32 Miles from New York : 9 Trains from a7td 11 to New York ; 6 Trains 
from and 5 to New York Sunday. 
Fare — Local, $i ; Excursion, $1.35 ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $31. 
At the base of the southern Highlands of the Hudson, in the rocky pass of 
the Ramapo. Once Washington's headquarters. Famous ground in the Revolu- 
tion. High hills on every side. Magnificent views. A resort for sufferers 
with bronchial and pulmonary affections. Recommended by leading physicians. 
Many natural curiosities. Boarding houses all first-class. Bass and pickerel 
fishing. Partridge, quail and woodcock. Negro Lake, 4 miles ; Shippen 
Lake, 6 miles ; Sterling Lake, 12 miles. 

BOARDING HOUSES. 

T. W. SUFFERN — Two-thirds of a mile from depot ; 500 feet above sea 
level. Transportation free. Accommodations for 30 ; 6 single rooms ; 12 
double rooms ; $8 to $10; $1.75 per day ; discount to season guests. Raises 
vegetables. Boats and fishing tackle free. Acts as guide to lakes free to guests. 

C. A. WANNEMAKER — Near depot. Accommodations for 10; 3 single 
rooms ; 2 double rooms ; prices moderate. Raises vegetables. 

FARM HOUSES. 
AUGUSTUS COE — 2\ miles from depot. Transportation free. Accom- 
modations for 15 ; $6. Farm produce, eggs, milk, poultry. 



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LAWRENCE D. N. COE — 2 miles from depot. Accommodations for 25 ; 
4 single rooms ; 10 double rooms $6 to $8 ; 50 cents per meal. Discount to 
season guests. Furnishes livery. Raises own vegetables on farm. Eggs and 
milk a specialty. 

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Ramapo, Rockland County, N. Y. 

33I Miles from New York : 4 Trains from and 3 to New York daily : 4 

Trains from and 2 to New York on Sunday. 

Fare— Local, $1.05 ; Excursion, I1.40; Commutation, 3 Mos., $33. 

In Ramapo Valley. Torne Mountain, from which Brooklyn Bridge tovi'ers 

may be seen, is the striking feature of the locality. Good drives to mountain. 

Potague Lake, Sterling Lake and mines, Truxedo Lake, and up and down the 

valley. Black bass and pickerel fishing in Ramapo River and lakes. 



BOARDING HOUSE. 
TERRACE HALL — H. Macfarlane, Proprietor — Near depot. Accom- 
modations for 50 ; single rooms $7 to $10 ; double, $14 to $20 ; $1.50 to $2 
per day. On Ramapo Lake. Picturesque location. First-class in every re- 
spect. Best of references. Favorite spot for artists. Livery at Suffern. 



Sloatsburg, Rockland County, N. Y, 

35^ Miles from New York : 4 Trains from and 3 Trains to New York 
daily ; 4 Trains from and 2 to New York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $1.10 ; Excursion, $1.45 ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $35.50. 

Center of sporting region. Lorillard's Lake, 3 miles ; Potague Lake, r 
mile ; Cedar Lake, 2 miles ; others in the vicinity. Romantic drives. Bass 
and pickerel fishing. Good hunting. Lakes from 500 to 1,000 feet above 
tide. Wild surroundings. 

HOTEL. 
ROCKLAND HOTEL— Post & Holthuysen, Proprietors. Near depot- 
■J mile from Sterling Junction. Accommodations for 20 ; 8 single rooms ; 6 
double rooms ; $6 and $7; $2 per day ; discount for season. Livery attached. 

BOARDING HOUSE: 
SLOAT MANSION — V. L. Todd, Proprietor. Accommodations for 40; 
8 single rooms; 14 double rooms ; $7 to $9 single ; $14 to $20 double; $2.50 
per day. Discount for season. Gas, bath, and billiards. Lawn of 20 acres. 
Raises veg&tables. 

Lorillard's, Rockland County, N. Y. 

2,^^ Miles from New York: 2 Trains to and X Train from New York daily; 
I Train each way on Sunday. 

Fare — Loc.\l, $1.20 ; Excursion, $1.60. 

STATION FOR LORILLARD'S OR TRUXEDO LAKE— Property of 
Lorillard estate. One mile from station. 500 feet above tide. Black bass, 
pickerel and perch. Privilege of fishing, $5 per rod per day, boat included. 
Conveyance furnished from station to lake on notice to Josiah Patterson, Sloats- 
burg, Rockland County, N. Y., 50 cents each way. Guide, $2 per day. 



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Southfields, Orange County, N. Y. 

42 Miles from New York : 4 Trains each way daily ; 4 Trains from attd 2 
io A^ew York on Sunday. 
Fare— Local, $1.30; Excursion, $1.75; Commutation, 3 Months, $39. 
Station from which the lakes are readily reached ; Truxedo, 3 miles ; Mam- 
basha, 3 miles. Good roads. Livery in the place. 

BOARDING HOUSE. 

OAK COTTAGE— Short walk from depot. Accommodate 35 ; 8 single 
rooms ; 8 double rooms ; $7 to $10 single ; $16 to $30 double. Base of moun- 
tains. Lake on mountain, back of house. Raises vegetables. 



Turner's, Orange County, N. Y. 

47I Miles from N'ezu York : 10 Trains from A''ew York daily and b on Sunday ; 
8 trains to Neio York daily and 6 on Sunday. 
Fare — Local, $1.45 ; Excursion, $195; Commutation, 3 Months, $42. 
(Change cars for Centi-al Valley, Highland Mills, Woodbuiy, Monniainville, 
Cornwall and Neivbnrg.) 

Last resort in Ramapo Valley. Famous as dining station on Erie Railway. 
Beginning of celebrated Orange County dairy region. Near all the lakes men- 
tioned. Partridge, quail, woodcock. Slaughter Lake, 3 miles ; Rumsey Lake, 
2 miles ; Little Long, 3^ miles : Mambasha, 4 miles ; Round Lake, 3 miles — 
bass, pickerel, perch. Livery in place. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

Mrs. R. McKELVEY — I of mile. Free conveyance. Accommodate 12 ; 2 
single rooms; 4 double ; $5 to $7. Discount for season. All the lakes easy of 
access. Vegetables, Iruits, eggs, milk and butter. 

N. B. STARKWEATHER—^ mile. Accommodate 25 ; 14 rooms; $7 to 
$9. Horses and wagons for use of guests. Farm of 30 acres. 1,000 feet above 
tide. 

GILBERT TURNER— Accommodations for 20 ; $6 to $9. 

W. C. SMITH— Accommodations for 30 ; $6 to $8. 

Mrs. p. TURNER— (Hotel)— Accommodations for 20; $6 to $10. 

PRIVATE COTTAGE. 
Mrs. J. R. TAPPING — Short walk. Accommodate 10; 3 single rooms; 
3 double ; $7 ; $8 ; 40 cents meal; discount for season. Raises vegetables. 



Monroe, Orange County, N. Y. 

4g| Miles from New York : 6 T7-ains from and 7 to New York daily J 4 Trains 

each ivay Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $1.55 ; Excursion, 2.05 ; Commutation 3 Mos., $44. 

Among tlie dairy farms. Highest elevation of any station on the Erie, east 

of Shawangunk Mountains. Lakes, and streams, and mountains. Highlands 

2 miles westward. Greenwood Lake, 9 miles. Splendid drives. Monroe, 

Round, Mambasha, Walton, and Long Ponds near. Black bass, pickerel, perch, 

woodcock, quail, rabbits. Fishing tackle furnished at lakes. Livery in place. 



HOTELS. 
SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN HOUSE— C. E. Davidson, Proprietor- 
Two miles from depot. Stages and carriages, 50 cents. Accommodations for 



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400; lOO single rooms ; 150 double rooms ; $10 to $15 single ; $8 to $15 double : 
$2.50 per day. Discount to season guests. 2,000 feet above tide, near top 
of Schunemunk Mountain. Fine mountain retreat. Three spacious stone 
buildings, connected by covered walks. Extended view of most picturesque 
portion of Orange County. Pure dry air, beneficial in pulmonary complaints. 
Mineral spring for rheumatism, kidney and liver diseases. Billiards, croquet, 
archery. Dancing every night. Livery attached. Saddle horses on hire. 
Stages connect with every train. Best city references. 

MONROE HOUSE— J. J. Van Duzer, Proprietor — Near depot. Accommo- 
dations for 50 ; 20 single rooms ; 20 double rooms ; $10 single ; $20 double ; $2 
per day. Discount for season. Raises vegetables. Guns and dogs. .Livery 
attached. $5 to $10 per day, with guide. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

W. R. CONKLING — | mile. Free conveyance. Accommodate 15 ; $6 
and $7. Raises vegetables. 

P. C. HAGER — 7 mile. Accommodate 10 ; 5 double rooms ; $7. Fur- 
nishes livery. Long Pond, i mile. Raises vegetables. 

GRANITE HOUSE— Short walk. Accommodate 40; 20 rooms; $7 to $8. 
Beautiful lawn. Fine shade. Farm 15 acres. Vegetables, milk, cream, eggs, 
butter, fruit, all from the farm. 

Mrs. H. S. CARPENTER— i mile. Accommodate 15; 5 single rooms; 2 
double ; $6, $8 ; 40 cents a meal. Raises vegetables. 

Mrs. p. a. McNALLY— Near depot ; conveyance 25 cents. Accommodate 
40. No children. $8 to |io ; $2 per day. Raises vegetables. 

THOMAS CAREN — i mile. Accommodate 30 ; 3 single rooms ; 12 double. 
I in room, $8 ; 2 or more, $7 each ; $1.50 per day ; discount for season. Shade' 
hammocks, swings, croquet lawns, piano. High ground. Raises vegetables. 

JAMES CREGEN — 2 miles ; 50 cents. Accommodate 30; 5 single rooms; 
7 double ; $7 ; $15 to $x8 ; discount for season. Plenty eggs, milk, butter, 
fresh vegetables. 

FARM HOUSE. 

URIAH CROSSON — 2| miles from depot. Transportation, Saturday even- 
ing and Moriday morning, free ; at other times, 50 cents. Accommodate 10; 3 
single rooms; 3 double; $7, $14 ; $1 per day ; no discount. 

WM. SUTHERLAND — ^ mile from depot. Accommodations for 12; $6; 
$1.50 per day. 

J. NELSON BULL — 2^ miles. Accommodate 15. Terms reasonable. 



Oxford, Orange County, N. Y. 

52^ Miles from New York : 4 Trains each 7vay daily ; 4 Trains front and 3 ta 
New York on Sunday. 

Fare— Local, $1.60; Excursion, $2.15; Commutation, 3 Months, $45.50. 

Fine scenery, lakes and streams, pure air and water have made this a popular 
retreat. Greenwood Lake, 9 miles. 



FARM BOARDING HOUSES. 
JAMES M. SEELY— li mile. Accommodate 20; $6 to $8; $1.50 per day. 
A. H. LAURENCE— I mile. Accommodate 10; 5 single rooms; 5 double 



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rooms; $6 to $7; $1 per day; discount for season. Transportation free on 
notice. 

JOS. W. YOUNGS — Near depot. Accommodate 20; 5 single rooms; 4 
double; $7; children under 12, $4; $1.50 per day. 

A. Y. CLARK — Accommodations for 30; $5 to $8. 



Greycourt, Orange County, N. Y. 

54^ Miles from New York : 6 Trains f-om and"] to Nciv York daily ; 4 Trains 

each -way Sunday. 

Fare— Local, $1.65 ; Excursion, $2.25 ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $46.50. 

(Change cars for Warivick, Craigville, Washingtonvillc , Salisbwy, and 

Newbtirg. ) 
Junction of the Newburgh and Warwick Branches with the main line of the 
Erie. Former follows valley of Murderer's Kill. Other around base of the 
Sugar-Loaf Mountain. 

HOTEL. 

GREYCOURT HOUSE— John R. Procter, Proprietor — Near depot. Ac- 
commodations for 12 ; $7 per week. Children half price. 

FARM HOUSE. 

T. M. SEELEY— One mile from depot. Accommodations for 12 ; $6 to $8. 
House large and commodious. 



Chester, Orange County, N. Y. 

55)^ Miles from Neiv York : 6 Trains fro>?i and 7 to New York daily ; 4 Trains 
each way Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $1.70; Excursion, $2.30 ; Commutation, 3 Mos., $47.25. 

A quiet, agricultural neighborhood. Good drives. Fine scenery. Quail and 
•woodcock. Black bass and pickerel near. 



OLD-FASHIONED FARM HOUSE. 

GEORGE SEELY — iK mile. Accomir.odations for 10 ; 2 single rooms; 2 
■double ; $7 single ; will give rates for double. Discount for season. Streams 
close l)y the house. Elevated location ; maple shade ; stabling. Vegetables and 
fruits from farm. 



Goshen, Orange County, N. Y. 

!^Qj\ Miles from New York: 10 Trains ftoin and 11 to New York daily ; 5 
Trains fro?n and 6 Trains to A-Vw York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $1.85; Excursion. $2.50; Commutation, 3 Months, $50. 

{Chansie cars for Montgomery , Lake Mohunk and Lake Minnewaska {N'ew 
Paaltz) ; and all resorts under head of " Jn the Catskills.") 

Famous for its butter, milk and blooded horses. The stock farms in and 
near Closhen are celebrated all over the Union. An interesting locality for 
summer sojourners and tourists. Black bass fishing in the Wallkill River and 
Pochunk Creek. Several lakes easy of access. Drives excellent. Good livery. 



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HOTELS. 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL— A. A. Brownson, Proprietor— Near depot. Ac- 
commodate 50 ; $6 to $10 ; $2 per day. 

ORANGE HOTEL — J as. Galway, Proprietor — Short walk. Accommodate 
50 ; $6 to $10 ; $2 per day. 

FARM HOUSE. 

GOLDEN HILL FARM— J. A. Brewster— 2^ miles. Accommodate 10. 
Single and double rooms communicate. $8, $10, $15. 

DANIEL D. BANKER — 2^ miles. Convey season boarders free. Accom- 
modate 25. 3 suits connecting rooms for families. $7 to $10 adults ] $4, 
children under 12 ; $5, servants. Good stabling. 



Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y. 

xo Miles froin Goshen^ on Montgomery branch: 2 1 rai7ts each way daily j 2 
Trains each way Sunday. 



HOTEL. 

PALACE HOTEL — J. F. Emerson, Proprietor — Short walk. Accommo- 
date 50. $5 to $10. Good fishing and boating in Wallkill River. Good 
drives. Nev/ hotel. 



FARM HOUSE. 
MARCUS RUMPF — 3 miles. Accommodate 10. 



Middletown, Orange County, N. Y. 

67 Miles from New York : 7 Trains from and g to New York daily ; 4 Trains 
from and 6 to New York on Sunday. 
Fare — Local, $2.05 ; Excursion, $2.75 ; Commutation, 3 Months, $53. 
{Change cars at Main street for Ellenville , Fallsburg, and Stations on the 
Midland Railroad.) 

Clean, broad streets, pure water, perfect drainage. Fine residences, grounds, 
drives, hills, woodfe and valleys. Orange County dairv region. Pickerel and bass 
fishing in the Wallkill. Trout streams of Sullivan County easy of access. 
Woodcock and quail shooting. 

PRIVATE HOUSE. 

CHARLES Z. TAYLOR — 5 minutes' walk. Omnibus, 10 cents. Accom- 
modate 4. 2 single rooms ; i double. $6, $10. New house, high location, 
fine view. Raises and buys vegetables. 



Howell's, Orange County, N. Y. 

71 Miles from Neiv York : 3 Trains from and 4 to New York daily ; 2 Trains 

frofn New York, 3 to New York Sunday. 
Fare— Local, $2.20; Excursion, $2.90; Commutation, 3 Mos., $55.75. 

A hamlet in the famous dairy region. Beautiful rolling country. Splendid 
outlook to the Shawangunk range. Quiet and healthful. Congregational 
Church. Woodcock in season. 



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FARM HOUSE. 

ALBERT MAPES — i mile. Free conveyance. Accommodate lo ; 5 single 
rooms ; $6, $8 ; Livery in Middletown, 3 miles. Vegetables, milk, butter, and 
eggs in abundance. 

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Otisville, Orange County, N. Y. 

75} miles from Nc7u York : 3 Trains from and ^ to Nezo York daily ; 2 Trains 
from New York, 3 to Neiu York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $2.35 ; Excursion, $3.10 ; Commutation, 3 Mos.. $58.50. 

A quiet farming neighborhood, in the midst of the dairies. 1,200 feet above 
tide, on Shawangunk range. Woodcock shooting in season. 



PRIVATE HOUSES. 

Mrs. J. H. REED — Short walk from depot. Accommodations for 12 ; 4 
single rooms; 4 double rooms ; $6 ; $1 per day. Raises vegetables. 

Mrs. M. E. WILKIN— 3 minutes walk from depot. Suite of 4 rooms, 
suitable for family or party of 8 ; $6. Discount for season of 4 or 5 months. 
Half mile from summit of Sliawangunk mountains. Fresh milk, eggs, etc. 
Raises vegetables. Private family. 

Mrs. ASA J. OGDEN — Near depot. Accommodate 6; $6 ; $1 per day. 
Discount for season. Raises vegetables. 

M. J. GREEN — Near. Accommodate 12: $6 to $8 ; $1 per day. Dis- 
count for season. Rooms large and airy. Fresh milk, eggs, and butter. 

Mrs. L. drake— i^ mile. Conveyance free. |6 to $8. 

FARM HOUSES. 

S. BERTHOLF — i mile. Free conveyance. Accommodate 15 ; 6 rooms ; 
$5, take care of own room; $6, with room service; gentlemen $1 per day. 
Old-fashioned farm. Fine locality. Eggs, milk, butter, vegetables, fresh daily. 

W. C. TYMESON — \ mile from depot. Free conveyance. Accommodate 
30; 5 single rooms; 2 double; $6 to $12 single; $20 double. Discount for 
season. Large grounds. Lake on the premises. Free boats. Raises vegeta- 
bles. 

JAMES B. WIGGINS — 2 miles. Conveyance free. Accommodate 25 ; 15 
rooms ; $5 to $8 ; $I per day. Raises vegetables, poultry. Fresh milk, eggs, 
and butler. 



Port Jervis, Orange County, N. Y. 

8 8 J- Miles from New York: 7 Trains from New York; 8 Trains to N'etu 
York daily ; 4 Trains from New York ; 6 Trains to New York Sunday, 

Fare— Local, $2.70; Excursion, $3.60; Commutation, 3 Mos., $65. 

{Chaiige cars for Monticello and White Lake ; stages for Mil ford and Dingmans 

Ferry.') 

.Terminus of the Eastern and Delaware Divisions of the Erie Railway. Junc- 
tion of the Port Jervis and Monticello Railroad, Statiim for Milford, Pa., 
Dingman's Ferry, Pa., and all the Lower Delaware Valley resorts, and the 
famous trout streams, bass and pickerel lakes, and hunting grounds of Pike and 
Sullivan counties. Best of bass-fishing in the Delaware, at the village. Roomy 
coaches run between Port Jervis, Milford, and Dingmans, the fare on which is 
50 cents in the day time, and 75 cents at night. Private conveyance may be or- 



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dered by telegraph of, J. Schori', J. Findlay, Geo. Korton, Milford, Pa., Quick 
and Hiilsizer, B. Godley, E. Slauson, T. Maguire, Port Jervis ; terms to Mil- 
ford, single, $2 ; team, $4. To Dingmans, single, $3 ; team, $6. The hotels 
of Port jervis are first class, but make no specialty of summer boarders. 



IN THE LOWER DELAWARE VALLEY. 



Milford, Pike County, Pa. 

A Splendid Drive of"] Miles from Fort Jet vis, Down the Delaiuare Valley. 

County-seat of the famous Pike County. Situated on a high bluff overlooking 
the Delaware River. Streets broad, free from dust, shaded, and hard as cement. 
The remarkable waterfalls on the Sawkill, Raymondskill, Sanvantine and Van- 
dermark Creeks, are from one to three miles from village. Milford Glen on the 
Sawkill, is a cool retreat in the village. Sawkill Pond, Little Log Tavern 
Pond, Big and Little Walker Ponds, and Brink Pond are from 4 to 10 miles 
distant. Best of black bass and trout-fishing almost within the bounds of the 
village. Hotels and boarding-houses are all first-class. Presbyterian, Metho- 
dist, Episcopal, and Catholic churches. The drives are not surpassed by any 
city boulevard. The river road, from Port Jervis to Bushkill, 30 miles, is as 
smooth as a floor. Livery accommodations are excellent. No mosquitos. No 
malaria. Guides procured by all the hotels and boarding places. 



HOTELS. 

FAUCHERE HOUSE— L. Faucherk, Proprietor— Open June r. Accom- 
modate 100 ; 30 single rooms ; 20 double ; $12 to $14 single ; $24 to $28 dou- 
ble, according to room ; $2.50 per day. Discount for season. Central location. 
French style. Modern cottages attached. Vegetables raised on the premises 
and in the vicinity. ' 

CRISSMAN HOUSE — Frank Crissman, Proprietor. Accommodate 75 ; 
15 single rooms ; 30 double ; $7 to $10 ; $14 to $20 ; $2 per day. Dis- 
count to season guests. Billiard parlor. Commodious stables. Fresh vegeta- 
bles, milk, butter, and eggs from farm. Livery attached. (This is the house 
mentioned in the sketch preceding this directory as the place where the author 
found such satisfactory quarters on his visit to Milford last year.) 

Sawkill house — The misses Cornelius, Proprietors. Accommodate 
100; 14 single rooms; 18 double; $8 to $10; $18 to $20 ; $2 per day. Dis- 
count for season. Patronized by leading families of New York, Brooklyn, and 
Philadelphia. Pleasant cottage near. 

RIVER VIEW HOUSE— F. LeClerc, Proprietor. Accommodate 40; 
$12 single ; $20 to $24 double ; $2 per day. Discount for season. Overlooks 
Delaware River. Large grounds. French style. 

GUST AVE DE BEHRL'S— Accommodate 50 ; 18 single rooms ; 20 double ; 
$10 to $12 single, $20, $22, $24 double. Boats and tackle. French cooking. 
Large garden. Spring water on every floor. Bath in house and in Delaware 
river. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

BLUFF HOUSE— H. B. Wells & John Van Campen, Proprietors, Ac- 
commodations for 120; 25 single rooms ; 50 double ; $9 to $15 single ; $18 to 
$28 two in room; $2.50 per day. Discount for season. On banks of Dela- 
ware, 150 feet above. Extended view of valley. Broad verandas and balconies. 



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spring water throughout. Bath rooms. Four acres of grounds fronting on 
river. 

BARNES COTTAGE— Mrs. H. Barnes, Proprietor. Accommodate 40; 
5 single rooms; 15 double rooms; $7; $7 to $S ; $1.50 per day. Discount 
for season. One of the most pleasant locations in town. JVIilford Glen in the 
rear. Rooms cool and airy. Vegetables and fruits from the grounds and 
vicinity. 

GLEN COTTAGE— E. T. Reviere, Proprietor. Accommodate 30; 10 
single rooms ; 20 double ; $10, $1", $14, according to location ; $10, $12 dou- 
ble ; $2 and $2.50 per day. Discount for season. Near famous Milford Glen. 

French style. 

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Dingman's Ferry, Pike County, Pa. 

15 Miles from Port Jervis. Stage comwction. Fare $1, 
A resort in a part of the Delaware Valley, the character of whose surround- 
ings has given it the name of the Switzerland of America. It is a region of 
cataracts, mountains, glens, gorges, and wonderful lakes. Dingman's Creek, 
Adam's Brook, and Decker's Creek, are successions of precipitous waterfalls for 
miles. Eight of tliese are within 2 miles of the village. The mountain drives 
are equal to those of the Catskills. The streams are famous for their trout. The 
lakes and Delaware River afford tlie best of bass and pickerel fishing. No mos- 
quitos ; no malaria. Beneficial in hay-fever. 



HOTELS. 

HIGH FALLS HOUSE— Philip F. Fulmer, M.D., Proprietor. Accom- 
modate 200; 75 single rooms; 60 double rooms; $10 and $20; .$2 per day- 
Hunting and fishing parties, $8 ; $1.50 per day. Cliildren and servants half 
price. Discount for season. Spring water. Table supplied fr^m hotel garden. 
Rooms spacious and airy. Resort of men and women eminent in art, literature, 
and science. 

RAN. VAN CORDEN'S. Accommodate 15 ; 9 single rooms ; 4 double ; 
$7 ; $i-5o per day. Fresh vegetables, milk, butter and eggs from the farm 
daily. Table celebrated. * 



AMONG THE SULLIVAN AND ULSTER MOUNTAINS. 



Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

5 Hoitrs Ride from New Yo7-k, via Erie Raihvay to Port Jervis, tlmtce by Port 
Jerz'is and Monticello Railroad. Close Connections from Erie Depot. 
Elevation 1,700 feet above tide. Surrounded by lakes, trout streams, and 
game preserves. Mountains, waterfalls. Pleasant Lake, i mile ; Sackett, 4 
miles ; White Lake, 8 miles ; Black Lake, 9 miles ; best bass, pickerel and 
perch fishing. Trout streams near by. Guides %\ per day. Deer, bear, foxes, 
partridge, quail, woodcock, English snipe, duck, wild pigeons in season. No 
malaria or fever. No mosquitos. Paved walks. A beautiful public park. 
Hotels and boarding houses first-class in all respects. Mansion House unsur- 
passed. 

HOTEL. 
MANSION HOUSE— Le Grand Morris, Proprietor — \ mile. Free omni- 
bus. Accommodate loo ; 45 single rooms; 30 double; $6 to $8; $1.50 per 



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day. Discount for season. Everything modern. Location central and pleas- 
ant. Rooms large, nicely furnished, ceilings high. Particular attention to ta- 
ble service. Best city references. Equips sportsmen free of charge. Fresh 
farm products. House highly recommended. Guides obtained. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

TOWNER'S VILLA— Mrs. R. B. Towner, Proprietress— | mile. Accom- 
modate 35 ; 9 single rooms ; 7 double ; $8 to $10 ; f 1.50 per day. Discount 
for season. Finely situated. Grove in rear of grounds. Raises vegetables. 
Omnibus to every train, 10 cents. 

A. S. LANDFIiiiLD — ^ mile from depot. Omnibus. Accommodate 28; 
ro single rooms; 9 double ; $6 to $S ; $7 to $10 ; $2 per day. Discount for 
season. Thirty acres grounds. Plenty shade. Raises vegetables. 

N. L. STERN — { mile. Coach 10 cents. Accommodate 15 ; 3 single 
rooms; 6 double; $lO ; $18 to $20; $1.50 per d -y. Discount for season. 
Raises vegetables. 

Mrs. CHAS. BURNHAM— ^ mile from depot. Accommodations for 12 ; 
3 single rooms ; 4 double rooms ; $7 ; |l per day. Farm of 100 acres. Plenty 
shade. 

CHAS. FOSTER— P. O. address. Bethel, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 10 miles 
either from Cochecton or Monticello ; daily stage; Accommodate 10; $6; 
$1.25 per day. In vicinity of Beach Lake, White Lake, Lake Superior, and 
Chestnut Lake. 

C. J, ROYCE — near depot. Accommodate 40 ; 25 single rooms ; 8 double ; 
$5 to |8 ; |io to $20 ; |i per day. Plenty shade. Milk, eggs, butter, poul- 
try. Livery attached. 



FARM HOUSES. 

JOHN HILL — 3^ miles. Stage. Accommodations for 20 ; rooms large ; 
$6 ; children half price. Plenty of shade. Large grounds. Fresh vegetables, 
milk, butter, eggs from farm. Furnish guides. 

MARTIN tOOHEY — Near Barnum's depot, Port Jervis and Monticello 
R. R., 4 miles from Monticello, Accommodations for 10; $6 to $8, Pickerel 
and trout fishing near. Mail daily. Vegetables, etc., fresh from iarm. 

GEO. MAPLEDORAM — Near depot. Accommodations for 10 ; 2 must 
room together; $5 the lowest rate. Romantic and sightly location. Shaded 
walks and retreats. Application must be made by June i. 

GEO. W. DECKER — 3 miles. Free conveyance. Accommodate 20 ; $6 to 
.$8 ; $1 per day. Best city references. Produce from the farm. 

JAS. KETCHAM— Oakland Station; P. O. address, Oakland Valley, Sulli- 
van Co., N, Y. Accommodate 25 ; 6 single rooms; 4 double ; $6; $10; $1 
per day. Post office in house ; telegraph near. Best trout fishing and hunting. 
Pure spring water. 



PRIVATE RESIDENCES, 

O. B. WHEELER, Jr.— Post Office address, Oakland Valley, Sullivan Co., 
N. Y. — I mile from the Oakland depot on Port Jervis and Monticello R. R. 
Accommodations for 20 ; $6 to $8 single ; |i2 double.' Best city references. 
Plenty of shade. Raises vegetables. 

GEO, McLAUGHLIN-^T mile from depot. Conveyance. Season guests 
free. Transient 15 cents. Accommodations for 12 ; 2 single rooms ; 2 double 
rooms ; single, i in bed, $6 ; 2 in bed, $5 each ; i in double room, $7 ; 2, $6 
each, Use of parlor and piano. Large house, pleasant rooms. Shady ground. 



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White Lake, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

8 Miles from Monticello : Stages connect with every Train at that place ; Fare 

to Lake, $1. 

Lar£^est of the man^ lakes of Sullivan County ; 1,500 feet above tide; moun- 
tain scenery ; stocked with game fish. The black bass are marvels of size and 
flavor. Air similar to that in Hudson Highlands. Has been a popular resort for 
30 years. No guides necessary. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

LAKE SHORE COTTAGE— John Corby, Proprietor. Accommodate 40; 
2 single rooms ; 33 double ; $7 each person. Western shore of lake. Free 
boats. Furnishes guns, dogs, etc. 

VAN WERT HOUSE— \V. A. Van Wert, Proprietor. Accommodate 75 ; 
10 single rooms ; 30 double ; $8 ; $16 ; $1 50 per day. Boats let. 

MANSION HOUSE — D. B. Kinne, Proprietor. Accommodate loo ; 15 sin- 
gle rooms ; 35 double ; $7 to $10 ; $1.50 per day. Boats to let. 

WHITE LAKE HOUSE— Mrs. O. B. Kirk, Proprietor. Accommodate 
30; II double rooms; adapted for families; $8 to $10; $2 per day. Free 
boats. Vegetables raised on the farm. 

SUNNY GLADE HOUSE— \Vm. Waddell, Proprietor. Accommodate 
20; $8 and $10 ; $1.50 per day. Boats to let. Raises vegetables. 

LAKE SIDE HOUSE — W. B. Gillespie, Proprietor. Accommodate 35 ; 
5 single rooms ; 12 double ; $8 ; $1.50 per day. 



Ellenville, Ulster County, N. Y. 

90 Miles from New York, via Ene Railway to Middletown, thence via Midland 

Railroad. 

During the summer season, if travel warrants it, a coach will be run from 
New York over the Erie Railway, on the 9 A.M. express, through without change 
to points on the Midland road, and one from Midland points without change 
through to New York, on train 30, arriving in New York at 8.25 P.M. 

This entire region is among the highest peaks of the Shawangunks, and in the 
heart of the Ulster and Sullivan trout and pickerel fishing. Ellenville is a 
charming village. Sam's Point, 6 miles ; Lake Minnewaski, 7 miles ; the Ice 
Caves, I to 3 miles ; Honk Falls, 2 miles, are notable resorts and curiosities. 
Good livery. 



HOTEL. 



TERWILLIGER HOUSE— A. Constable, Proprietor — \ mile from depot. 
Free omnibus. Accommodations for 50; 45 single rooms; 6 double rooms; 
$7 single; $10 double; $2 per day. Discount to season guests. First-class 
house. Livery. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

TERRACE HILL— J. A. Meyers, Proprietor— | mile. Meets guests at 
depot. Accommodations for 40; $6 to $8 ; $1.50 per day. Rooms large, well 
furnished. High ground. 

J. F. RHINEHART— P. O. address: Napanock, Ulster Co., N. Y.— 2 
miles. Free Conveyance. Accommodate 18 ; 4 single rooms ; 3 double ; $5 ; 
$10; $1 per day. A Irouting and gunning centre. Guides $1 per day ; fur- 
nishing tackle, dogs, and guns. Livery attached ; $3 to $5 per day. 

ORCPIARD HILL FARM HOUSE— A, Stratton, Proprietor. Green- 



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field, Ulster Co., N. Y. 5 miles. Free conveyance. Accommodate 20; $5 
and $6 ; reduction to children under 8 ; 90 cts. per day. Lakes and trout streams. 
Furnish livery. Croquet ground, swings, organ. Own dairy products. 



FARM HOUSES. 

HILLSDALE HOME— Edgar Vernooy, Proprietor. P. O. address: 
Wawarsing, Ulster Co., N. Y. 7 miles from EUenville. Accommodate 16 ; 
$6. Best trout stream in the country near house ; partridge and other small 
game. Houje 993 feet above tide. 



Fallsburgh, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

6 Miles from EUenville Junction of Midland. 
MUTTON HILL FARM-HOUSE— O. W. Bloxham, Proprietor— P. O. 
address: ISeversink, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 10 miles. Free conveyance. Ac- 
commodate 30 ; 13 rooms ; i in room, $5 to $6 ; 2 in room, $12 ; $1 per day. 
Discount for season. Trouting in Neversink and other streams ; pickerel and 
perch in North, Gand, and Sheldrake Lakes. Partridge and other small game ; 
dog and gun. High ground ; farm attached. Guides procured. 



Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska. 

Via Ej'ie Railway to Goshen; thence via Montgomery Branch and Wallkill 
Valley Branch to New Faaltz ; thence via Stage or Carriage. 

Among the highest and ruggedest peaks of the Shawangunk mountains, in 
Ulster County, N. Y. , where only a few years since the foot of man had seldom 
trod, are a number of most lemarkable and charming lakes, among them being 
Mohonk, and Minnewasjia. The latter is on the rocky crest of a Shawangunlc 
peak, near '' Sam's Point," the great height that commands a view of the greater 
part of the Eastern and Middle Stales. They are reached by an enjoyable 
drive. Mohonk is 9, Minnewaska 16 miles from New Paaltz. Bass and 
pickerel fishing. 



HOTELS. 

AT MOHONK. — Mohonk Lake House. Accommodate 200; $15 to $20 ; 
$3.50 per day. Boats, livery, telegraph office. No liquors. 

AT MINNEWASKA. — Minnewaska Heights House. Accommodate 200^ 
$15 to $20 ; $3 50 per day. Boats, livery, telegraph office. No liquors. Pro- 
fessor Smiley, Proprietor of both Hotels. Mail daily. 



AMONG THE DELAWARE HIGHLANDS. 



Shohola, Pike County, Pa. 

101 Miles frotn New York: i Train from and 2 Trains to New York daily ; 

Train to New York Sundays. 

Fare, $3.30 ; Excursion, $4 70. 

On the banks of the Delaware, 1,000 feet above the sea. Romantic Pike and 

Sullivan county scenery. Shohola Glen, one mile from the station ; gorges, 

waterfalls, precipices, and deep pools. Shohola Creek, a celebrated trout stream, 



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enters the Delaware here. Panther Brook, another front stream, with fine cat- 
aracts, enters just above. Falls of the Shohola great attraction. Nine moun- 
tain lakes reached easily, farthest 6 miles. Hagan, Hagai, Big, Monte;omery, 
Sand and York, in Sullivan County, and Brink and Big and Little Walker in 
Pike County, all stocked with bass and pickerel. Bass fishing in the Delaware. 
Deer, bear, fox, rabbit, joartridge, and woodcock shooting. 

Shohola is the station from which a picturesque portion of Sullivan County is 
reached, in the vicinity of Eldred among the Sullivan Highlands and lakes, 
ijSoo feet above tide. A drive of five miles from Shohola. 



HOTEL. 

SHOHOLA HOUSE — Geo. Layman, Proprietor — Near depot. Accommo- 
date 25 ; 8 single rooms; 3 double rooms; $7 single; $8 double: $1.50 per 
day. Discount of $1 per week for season. Overlooks river. Near Glen. Broad 
piazzas. Furnishes livery. Raises vegetables. Guides obtained. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

ISAAC M. BRADLEY, P. O. address, Eldred, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 6 miles. 
Carriage, single passenger, $2 ; family, $3. Accommodate 18 ; li rooms; i in 
room, fS ; 2 $7 each ; $1.25 per day. Center of trout, perch, and pickerel fish- 
ing. Boats free. • Deer, l^ear, partridge, rabbit, woodcock, wild pigeon shoot- 
ing. Deer-hounds and setters furnished ; $2 per day. Croquet ground. Meet 
parties at Shohola when notified. Headquarters for sportsmen. Fresh vegeta- 
bles, milk, eggs and butter. Guides obtained. 

MYERS, MILLS & Co., Eldred, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 7 miles. Conveyance, 
75 cts. for one ; 50 cts. 2 or more ; trunks, 25 cents. Accommodate 30 ; 5 sin- 
gle rooms ; 12 double ; $6 to f 8 ; $12 to $16 ; $1.25 per day. Discount for 
season. Lake in front of house ; 5 others within one mile. 2 boats free ; 
others 25 cents a day. 

LITTLE POND COTTAGE— J. Bodix, Proprietor. P. O. address, Barry- 
ville, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 4 miles from depot. Accommodate 15 ; 10 rooms,' 
double piazzas all around ; $8 per week ; $1.50 per day. Pond in front of 
house ; 2 other ponds near. Boats and fishing free. Conveyance $1 per person 
from depot. French cooking. Fresh vegetables, milk, eggs, etc. 



Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pa. 

Ill Miles from Nciii York : 3 Trains from ami 3 Trains to New York daily. 
I Train from and 2 Trains to A^-w York Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $3.40; Excursion, 65. 

Change cars for Jvowland, Millville {Blooming Grove Park), Kimble's, Hawley, 

and Honesdale. 

On Delaware and Lackawaxen rivers, in hunting and fishing region of Pike 
and Wayne Counties, Pa. , and Sullivan County, N. Y. Surrounded by moun- 
tains and forests, streams and lakes. York Lake, on summit of Sullivan County 
Highlands, 1,500 feet above tide, one mile distant. Wescoline Lake four miles. 
The Delaware is formed into a broad lake by the Delaware and Hudson Canal 
Company's dam at Lackawaxen. Unexcelled boating and bass-fishing. Water- 
falls on New York side of river. Trout streams — Lord's Brook, one mile ; Pan- 
ther Brook, 2 miles ; Taylor's Brook, five miles ; Shohola Creek, six miles ; 
Beaver Brook, three miles ; Blooming Grove and its streams, lakes, and hunting 
grounds, twelve miles, over a good road. Deer, bear, partridge, woodcock ; 
bass, trout, pickerel, perch, eels, cat-fish. No mosquitoes or malaria. 



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HOTELS. 

DELAWARE HOUSE— Mrs. M. A. Holbert, Proprietor ; F. J. Holbert, 
Manager — fj of a mile. On banks of Delaware, at junction of Lackawaxen. 
Conveyance free. Accommodate lOO ; 15 single rooms ; 50 double rooms ; 
$10 to $12 ; $S to $12 ; $2 per day. Discount for season. Two cottages at- 
tached. Boating for a mile on river. Black bass fishing in front of house. 
Boats free. Livery furnished ; $5 per day team. Best of references. Fresh 
"egetables, butter, eggs, milk, etc., from farm. Guides obtained. 

WILLIAMSON HOUSE — Wm. Bkown, Proprietor — Near depot. Accom- 
modation for 40 ; 20 single rooms ; 5 double rooms ; $7 to $8 single ; $2 per 
day. Discount to season guests. High ground. Grounds of grove and forest. 
Near all the points of interest. Broad piazzas. Furnish horses. Raises vegeta- 
bles. Guides obtained. 

NATIONAL HOTEL (Temperance)— C. Van Benschoten, Proprietor- 
Near depot. Highest ground in the place. Accommodations for 10 ; 14 single 
rooms; 2 double; $7 to $10; $2 per day. Discount for season. Furnishes 
livery. Boats free. Vegetables raised on place and in vicinity. Guides ob- 
tained. 



Narrowsburg-, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

X'l'^ Miles from New York: 3 Trains fro77i New York, 4 Trains to New Yotk 
daily ; i Train from New York and 3 to New York Sunday. 

Fare, $3.75 ; Excursion, $5.75. 

On Delaware River at Big Eddy, widest and deepest part of Delaware River 
above tide, literally a large lake of pure spring water. Black bass fishing. 
Boating for two miles. Ten mountain lakes within eight miles. Numerous 
trout streams in vicinity. No mosquitoes or malaria. Cool nights. Deer 
hunting on surrounding ridges. Partridge shooting good. Splendid drives. A 
leading dining station of the Erie Railway. Local sportsmen always ready to 
accompany visitors. 



BOARDING HOUSE. 

C. H. & C. J. MURRAY — Near depot. Accommodate 40 ; 15 single rooms, 
6 double ; $8 ; $2 per day. Rooms large and airy. Broad piazza. Every- 
thing first class. Good references. Also proprietors of dining hall in depot. 

GEBHARD'S HOTEL— J. Gebhard, Proprietor. Near depot. Accom- 
modate 15 ; 5 single rooms; 5 double rooms; $7; $r.50 per day. Discount 
for season. Livery attached. Raises vegetables, eggs, milk, butter, poultry. 

Mrs. G. UGHLING'S HOTEL, (German)— Near depot. Accommodate 
15 ; $6; |i per day. 

PRIVATE COTTAGE. 

WILLOUGHBY COTTAGE— John D. Ruff, Proprietor— Near depot. 
Accommodate 8 ; 2 single rooms ; 3 double ; $8 for one person ; two, $14 ; 
$1.25 per day. Beautifully located on banks of the river at Big Eddy. Hand- 
somest Homestead on upper Delaware. Fine grounds. Fruit and vegetables. 
Island 6 acres, in Delaware, belongs to cottage. 



FARM BOARDING HOUSE. 

JOHN ENGLEMAN, one-fourth mile from depot. Near river. Accommo- 
date 12 ; $6. No day boarders, Large, quiet farmhouse. 



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Cochecton, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

129 Miles from Neiu York: i Train from, 2 Trains to New York daily ; I 

Train to New York Sunday. 

Fare, $4 ; Excursion, $6.20. 

Quiet village on Delaware. Settled in 1752. Romantic location. Village 

of Damascus, Wayne County, Pa., opposite. Very healthful. No malaria or 

mosquitoes. Swago Lake, 2 miles. Lake Huntington, 4 miles. Doughty 

Pond and Cline Pond, near. Best bass and pickerel fishing. Trout also in 

Lake Huntington. Bass in Delaware. Calkins, Page's, and Beaver Dam 

Creeks neai". Trouting. Wild duck, partridge, deer. 



BOARDING HOUSE. 

LEROY BONESTEEL— I mile. P. O. address, Damascus, Wayne Co., 
Pa. Free transportation. Accommodate 10 ; 3 single rooms ; 2 double ; $5 ; 
$7. Near Swago, Cline, Baird's and Laurel Lakes. Bass and pickerel fishing 
and trout stream. Raises vegetables. 



FARM HOUSES. 

ULYSSES TYLER— 3 miles. P. O. address, Damascus, Wayne Co., Pa. 
Conveyance 50 cents, after first trip. Accommodate 6 ; $5 ; $1 per day. Rooms, 
high, light, and airy. High ground, i^ mile to Delaware River ; \ mile to 
Swago Lake. Plenty shade. Plain farmer's living. 

MISS ANNA DOUGHTY— 4 miles. P. O. address, Damascus, Wayne Co., 
Pa. Conveyance^ $1.50. Accommodate 12 ; rooms large ; $6 ; %\ per day. 
Laurel Lake on the place. Black bass, pickerel, perch, trout near. Free 
boat. Guides secured. Conveyance furnished. 



Callicoon, Sullivan County, N. Y. 

136 Miles from New Yotk : 3 Trains from and 2 Trains to New York Daily ; 
I Train fvm New York Sunday, 
Fare, $4.15 ; Excursion, $6.50. 
Callicoon is the center of one of the famous trout regions of the Delaware 
Valley. Callicoon Creek, which enters the Delaware a short distance below sta- 
tion, threads the back wilderness and splendid farming section of Callicoon 
Valley. Along its entire course from the hills on either side, tributary streams 
flow into it at short intervals. The main stream and its feeders are natural 
trout creeks. These brooks are within an area of five miles. On Pennsylvania 
side of Delaware is Hollister Creek. For two miles from the river this creek 
flows through a wild and narrow gorge, and seeks the level of the river by a 
series of waterfalls. Numerous lakes on both sides of river, as a glance at the 
map in this book will show. All the hotels and boarding houses give informa- 
tion as to guides. 



HOTELS. 

MINARD HOUSE— Z. Minard, Proprietor— P. O. Address, Callicoon 
Depot, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Near depot. — Accommodate 30 ; 20 single rooms ; 
6 double ; $5 to $7 ; $7 and $8 ; $1.50 per day. Discount for season. Pro- 
vides boats, guns, and dogs, f I.50 per day. Livery — $2 per day for single rigs ; 
$3 per team. Plenty of fresh vegetables from hotel gardens. 

WESTERN HOTEL— Mrs. L. Thorwelle, Proprietress— P. O. Addres.s, 
Callicoon Depot. Near depot. Accommodation for 40; 10 single rooms; 
6 double rooms; $6 to $10 single; $10 to $15 double; $1.50 per day. Dis- 
count to season guests. Raises vegetables. 



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FALL MILL HOUSE— E. R. Lawrence, Proprietor— P. O. Address, Fall 
Mills, Sullivan Co., N. Y. — 4.^ miles from depot. Will meet guests at train. 
Accommodations for 25 ; $4 to $8. On the east branch of Callicoon Creek. 
Best trout fishing and hunting. Large farm attached. Will give full informa- 
tion by mail on application. 

CALLICOON HOTEL— John Ludwig, Proprietor— P. O. Address, Calli- 
coon, Sullivan Co., N. Y. — 9 miles from depot. Meets guests if notified. Stage, 
50 cents. Accommodate 20 ; 6 single rooms ; 5 double ; $5 ; $1 per day. 
Near Post Office. Mail from New York at 5 p. M. Large farm attached. 
Streams so near no guide needed. Furnishes livery. 

TRAVELER'S HOME— C. Baurenfiend, Proprietor— P. O. Address, 
North Branch, Sullivan Co., N. Y. — 5 miles from depot. Free transportation. 
Accommodate 40 ; $6. Raises vegetables. 

, PIKE POND HOTEL— A. Grouten, Proprietor— P. O. Address, Pike 
Pond, Sullivan Co., N. Y. — 8 miles. Stage. Accommodate 10; $7; $1 per 
day. On the shore of Pike Pond. Bass and pickerel. Fiee boats for guests. 
Prefer men. 



BOARDING HOUSE. 
ALBERT BRANDT — 2^ miles. Free conveyance. Accommodate 30 ; 10 
single rooms ; 4 double rooms ; $6 ; $1 per day. Farm attached. 



FARM HOUSES, 

J. S. GEBHART— P. O. Address, North Branch, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 
5 miles. Accommodate 12 ; $6 ; children under 12, $4. 

JACOB DIETZ— P. O. Address, Callicoon, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 9 miles. 
Stage. Accommodate 12 ; $7 ; $1 per day. 

M. H. ATWATER— P. O. Address, Callicoon Depot, i mile. Free car- 
riage. Accommodate 8 ; 2 single rooms ; 3 double ; $5 to $12. 



PRIVATE HOUSES. 

E. FISH — P. O. Address, Jeffersonville, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 11 miles. 
Stage. Accommodate 12 ; 9 single rooms ; 3 double ; $7. 

JOHN BECK— P. O. Address, Jeffersonville, Sullivan Co., N. Y.— 9 miles. 
Stage. Accommodate 8 ; $7 ; $1 per day. Raises vegetables. 



STAGE LINES. 
For North Branch (50 cents) and Callicoon (75 cents), Tuesdays, Thursdays, 
and Saturdays. For Jeffersonville and Pike Pond, daily except Sunday, $1 ; 
fi.50 round trip. Leave after the arrival train i (9:15 A. M. from New York). 
Connect with train 30 for New York (2:52 p. M.) 



Hancock, Delaware County, N. Y. 

164 Miles from New York : 4 Trains each way daily 1; 1 Traiii from and 3 

Trains to A^eto York Su7tday. 

Fare, $5. 

At the junction of the two branches of the Delaware River. Surrounded by 

mountains. ' Fifteen trout streams within from one to twelve miles. Jn the 

Beaverkill region. Ten lakes near. Deer, bear, partridge, Black bass in the 

Delaware. 



HOTEL. 
HANCOCK HOUSE — E. W. Griffis, Proprietor. Near depot. Accom- 
modations for 25 ; 15 single rooms; 20 double rooms; $5; $1.50 per day. 
Discount for season. Livery and farm attached, ' 



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IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS. 

ALONG THE NEWBURGH SHORT CUT. 



Aside from the delightful scenery of the Highlands, it is a fact which the ex- 
perience of years has demonstrated, tliat the air which circulates among these 
hills and valleys is possessed of curative properties that render the existence of 
pulmonary or bronchial difficulties next to an impossibility from the Schune- 
munk range to the Cornwall Hills. It is stated that there is a well defined line 
which marks the boundary of tliis rare mountain atmosphere, and that the area 
of its presence is within the mountain elevations just mentioned. Th(rre are in- 
numerable instances of invalids being restored to robust health by a few seasons 
spent in the Highlands, prominent among them being the late N. P. Willis, the 
poet, who visited Cornwall a confirmed consumptive, spent one season in the 
mountains, and was so much benefited that he became a resident, and was re- 
stored to health. The value of this region as a sanitarium is now recognized by 
leading physicians, and many patients suffering with lung or throat diseases are 
annually recommended by them to seek some one of the favorite resorts among 
the Highlands, on the line of the Erie Railway. 



Central Valley, Orange Co., N. Y. 

A^'i:'^ Miles from Nc7o York: 5 Trains from and (i to New York daily, i Train 

from and 2 to Next) York Sunday. 
Summer Fare— Local, $1.15 ; Excursion, |2.oo ; Commutation, 3 Months, 

$42.75. 



HOTEL. 

SUMMIT LAKE HOUSE— Eltsha Stockbridge, Proprietor— 2 miles. 
Carriage and stage, 50 cents. Accommodate 80 ; 12 single rooms ; 25 double 
rooms; $8 to $15 single; $10 double; I1.50 per day. Discount to season 
guests. In heart of the Highlands. 1,800 feet above tide. 11 mountain lakes. 
Summit Lake near. Bass and pickerel. Boats and tackle furnished guests ; 
10 cents per hour ; 50 cents per day ; boat extra. Woodcock, partridge, fox, 
rabbit. Hendrix, keeper of Summit Lake, acts as guide to lakes and hunting 
ground ; $1 per day. No charge for dogs. Vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, 
chickens, butter, all from the place. Livery attached. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

STONY VALE HOUSE— C. T. Ford, jr.. Proprietor— 2 miles. Carriage, 
25 cents, and 25 cents for trunks. Accommodate 35 ; 3 single rooms; 12 dou- 
ble ; $8; $1.50 per day. Near Wood, Summit, and Twin Lakes. Livery and 
farm attached. Higli location. Pure air and water. 

ISAAC L. NOXON — \ mile. Conveyance free on arrival of guest and de- 
parture at end of season. Accommodate 40 ; 7 single rooms ; 10 double ; first 
and second single rooms, T in room, $10 ; 2 in room, $15 ; double rooms, 2 in 
room, $20; 3 in room, $26. Third floor, single rooms, i in room, $7 ; 2 in 
room, $11 ; double rooms, 2 in room, f 11 ; 3 in room, $18. Season guests, 
and adults only; extra for gentlemen of families; .$2.50 from Saturday night 
till Monday morning. Vegetables, fruit, milk, eggs, chickens, and butter, all 
from the place. Pickerel and bass lakes within easy reach. 

Mrs. E. GIBB — J mile. Accommodate 40 ; |8. Raises vegetables. 



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DAVID CORNELL- — ^ mile from depot. Accommodations for 25 ; 15 
rooms, single and double; $7. Near lakes. Vegetables, milk, eggs, and but- 
ter from the place. 

FARM HOUSE. 

MAPLE FARM — Mrs. H. Thorne. sr. — 5 mile. Accommodate 20; 4 sin- 
gle rooms ; 3 double ; I7 to |8 ; $8 to $9. 



Highland Mills, Orange County, N. Y. 

\<^\ Miles from New York: 5 Trains from and b to Neio York daily ; i Train 

from and 2 to New York Staiday. 

Summer Fare — Local Fare, $1.15 ; Excursion, $2.00 ; Commutation, 3 

Months, $43.25. 



HOTELS. 

CROMWELL LAKE HOUSE— Oliver Cromwell, Proprietor. i-J- miles. 
Stage meets all trains ; 25 cents. Accommodate 130 ; 12 single rooms ; 58 
double; $10 to $12; $9 to $12; $2 to $2.50 per day. Telegraph office in 
house. Boating free. No whiskey. Wine permitted. 



^ Woodbury, Orange County, N. Y. 

5of Miles from New York : 5 Trains from and 6 to Neiu York daily ; i Train 

from and 2 to New York Sunday. ' 
Summer Fares — Local, I1.15; Excursion, $2; Commutation, 3 Months, 

$43- 75- 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

MAPLE CENTRE FARM— Lewis S. Joyce, Proprietor— ^ mile. Car- 
riage, 20 cents single ; 15 cents each more than one. Accommodations; for 25 ; 
I single room ; 12 double ; $7 single ; $14 to $16 ; 2 in room. A creek runs 
through the premises. Within easy reach of all the lakes. Furnishes livery. 

L. A. VAN CLEFT — \ mile. Free conveyance. Accommodate 30 ; 5 sin- 
gle rooms ; 8 double ; $10 single ; $8 double ; $2 per day. Discount for sea- 
son. Raises vegetables. Furnishes livery. 



Mountainville, Orange County, N. Y. 

c^'^ Miles from New York: 5 Traitts from, b Trains to A^ew York daily ; Sun- 
day, I Train from, 2 Trains to New York. 
Summer Fares— Local, $1.15; Excursion, $2; ComjMutation, 3 Months, 

$46. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

TITUS HOUSE — Jacob Cocks, Proprietor— | mile from depot. Trans- 
portation, 25 cents. Accommodations for 30; 2 single rooms; 14 double 
rooms; $8 single; $5 to $7 double; $1.50 per day. Discount to season 
guests. Open May i. Furnishes livery, $5 to $10 per day. Raises vegetables. 

JOHN ORR — Near depot. Accommodations for 30 ; 4 single rooms ; 9 dou 



6o 

ble rooms ; $8 Single ; $i6 to $20 double. Spring water. Post office, tele- 
graph office, and express office near house. Furnishes livery. Raises vegetables. 
STEPHEN BRUNDAGE— ^ mile. Conveyance, adults, 10 cents ; children, 
5 cents. Accommodations for 28 ; 10 double rooms ; $6 and $8. Farm of 100 
acres. High ground. 

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Cornwall, Orange County, N. Y. 

56 Miles from N'eio York : 5 Trains from New Yo)k and t to Neia York daily ; 

I Train from and 2 to A^eiu York Sunday. 
Summer Fares — Local, $1.15 ; Excursion, $2 ; Commutation, 3 Months, 

$46.75 ; Book of 50 Tickets, $30, Valid 3 Months, Either Direction. 

Not less than five thousand people annually summer in the Corn\.ali district, 
and among the guests who are now regular annual visitors there are many who 
came to Cornwall as invalids years ago. Physicians send patients to Cornwall 
for affections that it was formerly thought could not be benefited in a climate 
other than the Bahamas, Bermudas, or the Lake Superior region. Storm King 
and Old Cro' Nest, two ancient crags, belong to Cornwall. The drives to West 
Point, to Newhurgh, to New Windsor, and the hundreds of shorter mountain 
drives and walks, are unsurpassed. Good livery in the place. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

LINDEN PARK HOUSE— R. B. Ring, Proprietor— iJ mile from depot. 
Stage 25 cents. Accommodations for 100; 50 rooms — $8 to $12 ; #2 per day. 
Discount to season guests. Everything first-class. Raises fruit and vegetables. 

MOODNA MANSION — Wm. Orr, Proprietor — ^ mile. Stage, 10 cents. 
Accommodate 60; $10 to $18 ; S2 per day. House newly furnished, all mod- 
ern improvements. Livery in connection with house. Raises vegetables. 

L. P. CLARK — 2i miles. Stage from all trail s, 25 cents. Accommodate 20; 
7 single rooms ; 4 double ; $12 ; $2 per day. Boats and tackle, 50 cents to f 2. 

LAWRENCE HOUSE— J. J. Lawrence, Proprietor— 3 miles. Stage 25 
cents. Accommodations for 70; $10 to |i8 single; $18 to $25 double — $2 
per day. Discount for season. Raises fruit and vegetables. 

GLEN RIDGE HOUSE— James G. Roe, Proprietor— 3 miles. Carriage 
and stage, 50 cents. Accommodate 200; 25 single rooms; 90 double rooms ; 
$10 to $14 ; f 16 to $28 ; |2 per day. Livery on the premises. Gas and water 
throughout. Spring beds, hair mattresses. Wood fires in rooms if called for. 
Forty acres adjoining " Idlewild." Glens, shaded walks. 

VINE BROOK COTTAGE— Mrs.. C. E. Cocks, Proprietor— 3^ miles. 
Stage, 25 cents. Accommodate 25 ; il rooms; $8 for one adult; $12 to $14 
for two ; $1.25 per day. Discount to season guests. Five minutes from post 
office, telegraph office, and reading room. Farm of 11 acres. Adjoins farm of 
E. P. Roe, the author and fruit cultivator. Base of Storm King. Plenty of 
fresh fruit. 



Newburgh, Orange County, N. Y. 

63^ Miles frofu New York: 5 Trai?is from A'e-.o York and b Trains to Au-w 

York daily ; I Train from and 2 Trains to New 1 'ork Sunday. 
Summer Fares — Local, $1.20 ; Excursion, $2.25 ; Committation, 3 Months, 
$50 ; Book of 50 Tickets, $32.50. Valid for 3 Months, Either Direc- 
tion, 

Population, 20,000. On Newburgh Bay. First settled in 1719. Celebrated 
for its Revolutionary associations, beautiful scenery, and healtlifulness. Wash- 
ington's Headquarters in 17S2-3. Famous building occupied by him, erected 
in 1752, still standing. Filled with relics of the Revolution. Unsurpassed 



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boating and fishing in the Bay. Orange Lake, 6 miles distant ; bass and pick- 
erel. Fine drives to Cornwall, West Point, and all places in Highlands. 
Churches of all denominations. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

H. W. MURTFELT — 3 miles. Livery conveyance. Accommodate 35 ; 
3 single rooms ; 14 double ; $8 single ; $14 to $16 double ; $2 per day. On 
the banks of the Hudson. Fine drives and walks. Raises fruit and vegetables. 
P. O. Box 199. 



THE LACKAWAXEN VALLEY. 



VIA HONESDALE BRANCH FROM LACKAWAXEN. 



Rowland's, Pike County, Pa. 

115 Miles from New York : i Tiaui pom New- York daily, except Sunday ; 
2 on Wednesdays and Saturdays ; 2 Trains to New York daily except Sunday, 

Fare, $3.55. 
Near Big and Little Tink, Long and Round Gorilla, Wescoline and Wolf 
Lakes, and numerous trout streams. In hunting region. On Lackawaxen 
River. 



PRIVATE HOUSE. 

G. H. HOWLAND — Short distance. Accommodate 8 ; 5 rooms ; large, airy 
and finely furnished ; $7 to $10; $1.75 per day. Discount for season. High 
ground. Plenty fresh vegetables, milk, eggs, butter. Furnishes livery, $2 to 
$5 per day. Guides, $1.50 per day. 



Millville, Pike County, Pa. 

119 Miles from New Yoik : same train facilities as Rowlands. 
Fare, $3.70; Excursion, $5.50. 
Center of a noted hunting and fishing region. Tink, Big and Little Gorilla, 
Knob, White Deer, and Jones's Lakes are in a radius of seven miles. Several 
beautiful waterfalls near. Station for Blooming Grove Park, the famous game 
preserve of 12,000 acres, and M. G. Westbrook's popular Blooming Grove re- 
treat. Distance, 7 miles. Livery furnished at Millville, by John Deming, who 
also keeps a good hotel for the accommodation of visitors. 



HOTELS. 

WESTBROOK HOUSE — M. C. Westbrook, Proprietor— P. O. Address, 
Blooming Grove, Pike Co., Pa, — 8 miles. Conveyance, %l. Accommodations 
for 20 : 9 single rooms ; 6 double ; $7 to $10 ; $15 to $20 ; $1.50 per day. In 
the midst of the Blooming Grove hunting and fishing region. Grand mountain 
sceneiy. High Knob, loftiest elevation in Northern Pennsylvania, 2,000 feet 
above tide, 3 miles. Three lakes on the summit of this mountain. Black bass, 
trout and pickerel fishing unsurpassed. The greatest deer and bear region in 
the State. Partridge and woodcock. Guides '^furnished, $1 per day. Guns, 
dogs, and fishing-tackle. Liveiy attached, Large farm and dairy, 



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BLOOMING GROVE PARK CLUB HOUSE— Eight miles from depot. 
On shores of Lake Giles. Carriage. Accommodations for loo. Terms ar- 
ranged on application. Deer, bear, and all small game in the preserve. Eight 
large lakes, stocked with bass, pickerel and perch. A score of trout streams. 
A retreat for gentlemen sportsmen and their families. 



Hawley, Wayne County, Pa. 

125 Llilcs from A^ew York : Same train facilities as Rowland's. 
Fare, $3.90; Excursion, $5.75. 
In the Pike County game and fish region. Trout, bass, and pickerel; deer, 
bear, fox, partridge, rai)bits. The wonderful Wallenpaupack Falls in the vil- 
lage. Terminus of the famous Gravity Railroad of the Pennsylvania Coal Com- 
pany. One of the grandest excursion routes in America. Scranton, 35 miles, 
heart of Lackawanna coal region. Lake Jones, 6 miles ; White Deer Lake, 
9 miles; Trout streams, from 1 to 8 miles. Also station for Blooming Grove. 
Good hotels, but make no specialty of keeping summer boarders. Good livery. 



Honesdale, Wayne County, Pa. 

X-Tj^, Miles from Nezv York: Same train facilities as Roivland's, 
Fare, $4.40; Excursion, $6.75. 
One of the handsomest and wealthiest villages in Pennsylvania. Lackawaxen 
and Dyberry rivers run through the place. Streets broad and bordered with 
maples and elms fifty years old. Excellent drives. Bethany, 3 miles ; Mart 
Kimble's 2 miles ; White Mills, 5 miles ; Waymart, 10 miles. Beautiful park 
of maples in center of village. Twelve famous bass and pickerel lakes within 
from six to fourteen miles. Trout fishing within from two to five miles. Ter- 
minus of the celebrated Gravity Railroad owned by the Delaware and Hudson 
Canal Company. This road extends to Carbondale, 17 miles, in the upper 
Lackawanna coal regions. In connection with the similar road from Hawley, 
it is now one of the most popular excursion roads in America. The cars run 
up and down high hills, there being no motive power perceptible to the tourist. 
At one point, an elevation of 2,000 feet above tide is reached. The road curves 
abruptly around mountains, and traverses glens and the sides of lofty hills. The 
ride is exhilarating, grand, indescribable. Hundreds of tourists enjoy it daily 
during the summer and fall months. The livery accommodations are excellent. 



HOTELS. 

ALLEN HOUSE — M. B. A'XEN, Proprietor — i mile. Omnibus, 25 cents ; 
or will meet guests, if notified. Accommodations for 50; fine large and airy 
doable and single rooms ; $6 to $10, single ; $10 to $20, double. Special ar- 
rangement with season guests. Overlooks park. Splendid location. Broad 
halls, balconies. Commodious stables. Bath. Vegetables from farm. Free 
trans])ortation to and from Gravity depots. 

KIMBLE HOUSE— M. Kimble, Proprietor — 2 miles. Meets guests at 
depot with private conveyance. Accommodations for 10 ; $5 to $6 ; $2 per 
day. Beautiful location. Large farm attached. Surrounded by large shade 
trees. Rifle range. Croquet lawn. Driving Park ; half-mile track. Comm.o- 
dious stables. All equipments for sportsmen. Plenty of fresh vegetables, fruit, 
eggs, butter, and milk. 

KIPLE HOUSE — R. J. Daggett, Proprietor — i mile. Free transportation 
if notified. Accommodations for 50; 20 single rooms; 16 double , $6 single ; 
$10 double ; $2 per day. Discount for season guests. Guides to lakes will bo 
procured. 



63 

ON THE NEWBURGH BRANCH. 



West of the Schunemunk Mountains is the romantic valley of the Murderer's 
Kill^ through which the branch of the Erie Railway extending from Greycourt 
to Newburgh passes. The valley, like this entire section of Orange County, is 
full of historical associations. The Newburgh Branch and the Short Cut unite 
at Vail's Gate, six miles from Newburgh. It was at the former place that Gen- 
erals St. Clair and Gates were quartered when the army was encamped in the 
vicinity. The Edmoston House, their headquarters, is still standing. It was 
built in 1755. At Washington Square, two miles from Vail's Gate, Genei'al 
Clinton had his headquarters in the Falls House, still intact. An ancient In- 
dian burying-ground, and a number of very old churches are in the vicinity. 
Pickerel, bass, and perch fishing in the adjacent lakes. Livery at all the 

stations. 

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Washingtonville, Orange County, N. Y. 

61 Miles from Nezsj York: 3 Trains fjoni and \ to New York daily ; i Train 

each ivay Sttnday. 
Fark — Local, $1.85 ; Excursion, $2.50; Commutation, 3 Months, $50.50. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 
• Miss A. E. BROOKS — Five minutes walk from depot. Accommodate 14; 
|7 to $8 ; $l-50 per day. Raises vegetables. 

T. B. CAMERON — \ mile from depot. Accommodations for 20 ; 4 single 
rooms ; 5 very large double rooms | $6 single ; $8 double ; I1.50 per day. Has 
a horse and carriage. Vegetable's and fruit raised on place and in vicinity. 



FARM HOUSES. 

Miss M, BEATTY — 3 miles. Conveyance free. Accommodate 16 ; 8 large 
rooms ; $6 to $8. Discount for season. Broad piazzas. Extensive grounds. 
Plenty of shade. Vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and milk. Furnishes convey- 
ance, stabling and carriage room. 

DANIEL T. mead — if miles from depot. Accommodations for 12 ; 2 sin- 
gle rooms ; 4 dotible rooms ; $5 single ; $14 double. House large and cool. 
Stream runs through premises. Maple grove. Fresh vegetables, milk, eggs, 
and butter. 



Salisbury, Orange County, N. Y. 

62^ Miles frotn Nezu York: 3 Trains from aiid ^ io Nczu York daily ; i Train 
each way Sunday. 

Fare — Local, $1.95 ; Excursion, $2.60; Commutation, 3 Months, $52. 

WOANGDALE VILLA — R. Wallace Genung, Proprietor — 2\ miles. Car- 
riage free. Accommodate 14; 7 double rooms; $7 to $8; $1.50 per day. 
Discount for season. 450 feet above the Hudson at Newburgh, 9 miles distant. 
Not one case of malaria in 50 years in the neighborhood. Near old Governor 
Clinton homestead. One mile from Highlands. Fresh vegetables, fruit, eggs, 
milk and butter. Livery at Salisbury station ; $2 to $3 per day. 



Warwick, Orange County, N, Y. 

64 Miles from New York, via Eiie Railway to Greycomi ; thence via Warwick 

Valley Railroad. 
Fare— Local, $2 ; Excursion, $2.75 ; Commutation, 3 Months, I56.25. 
Warwick and region around it furnish great attraction to the tourist. Sugar- 



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Loaf Mountain, Sterling Mountain, Mount Adam and Mount Eve, notable fea- 
tures of the landscape. Old Sterling iron-furnace, near outlet of Sterling Lake. 
Founded by Lord Sterling in 1751. Partridge, quail, woodcock, pickerel, 
black bass, Greenwood Lake, 62- miles; Glenmere, 4^ miles; Wawayanda 
Lake, 7^ miles ; Double Lake, 5 miles ; Wickham's Lake, 3 miles. Tackle 
provided at them all. Warwick Woodlands near. Good livery. 



BOARDING HOUSES. 

WM. L. BENEDICT — J mile. Accommodations for 16; 4 single rooms; 
6 double ; $6; $7 for gentlemen; $6, ladies. Spacious grounds, well shaded. 
Surroundings cheerful, healthful, and attractive. Abundance of vegetables, 
fruit, milk, eggs, and butter. Desirable for children. 

Mrs. ROY — ^ mile from Stonebridge depot, ij mile from W'arwick. Con- 
veyance 50c. Accommodate 8 ; rooms large ; $6 ; $1 per day. 5 miles from 
Greenwood Lake. Excellent locality for children. Raises vegetables. P. O. 
address, Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. 

Mrs. C. B. VAN DEVORT— Short walk. Accommodate 14; 3 single 
rooms ; 3 double ; $8 single ; $7 double ; $1.50 per day. Discount for season. 
Raises vegetables. 

FARM HOUSE. 

KILCARE COTTAGE— A. M. Hoyt, Proprietor— 3 miles. Free carriage. 
Accommodations for 25 ; 12, $7. Woods and mountains ; q miles from Green- 
wood Lake ; 4 miles from Wawayanda Lake. Fresh farm products daily. 



IN THE CATSKILLS. 



Via Etie Railway to Goshen, fkcnce 7'ia Montgomery Btanch and Wallkill Val- 
ley Railroad to Kingston, thence via Ulster and Delaware Railroad. 



Shokan, Ulster County, N. Y. 

18 Miles from Kingston. ■ 



FARM BOARDING HOUSE. 

J. M. BURGHER— 2 miles. P. O. Address, West Shokan, Ulster Co., 
N. Y. Carriage free. Accommodate 20 ; 2 single rooms ; 6 double ; $6 to 
$9. Near Whiienburg, Buslikill, and Rondout Creeks. Trout, woodcock, quail, 
and partridge. Obtain guides. 



Big Indian, Ulster County, N. Y. 

36 Allies ff-om Kingston. 



BOARDING HOUSE. 

, SLIDE MOUNTAIN HOUSE— B. Dutcher, Proprietor— 3 miles. Con- 
veyance. Accommodate 40; $5 to $8; $1.25 per day. Near base of Slide 
Mountain. Trout fishing in head waters of Neversink and Beaverkill streams. 
Guides provided. 



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^ERIE RAIL \VAY> 

In presenting this MAP and GUIDE to the iiublic, the Erie Railway Company has kept in view the fact 
that people seeking siijourijing places in the country, especially desire to avoid all localities stlbject to 
M VI. \RI AI.INFI.UKMCRS The ERIK is peciiliady fortunate in the ANTI-MALARIA I. CHARACTER 
OF I III fOUNTRY IHROUGK WHICH IT PASSES. The pure air, rapid waters, and hi^h elev.ations of 
li.e KAMAI'l). DELAWARE and NEVERSINK valleys, and the Iwck regions of ULSrER. SULLIVAN, 
OKAM'.E, I'lKE. WAVNE and DELAWARE counties, are persistent foes to the diseases that have 
become so prevalent in other |)arls of the country. MALARIA CANNOT ORIGINATE in the above locali- 
ties, and physicians are annu.tliy sending patients afflicted with malarial affections to the above HEALTH- 
RENEWING RESORTS ALONG THE ERIE. 



TO HAY-FEVER AND ASTHMATIC SUFFERERS, 

The Mountain Regions of New York and Pennsylvania, 

AIX>NC THi: 

— ERIE RAIL^W^^Y — 

AFFORD RELIEF IN A SHORT TIME, 

As a Sanitarium for these complaints, they are UNSURPASSED by the climate of the White Moun- 
ts, as hundreds can and do testify. 




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